Farah's Guide Farahs Anniversary Edition, Nancy Drew

Farah's Guide, 12th Printing, Special 20th Anniversary Hardcover Edition has 578 pages, lists 2745 printings of Nancy Drew between 1930 and 1979, including prices on each book and dust jacket. It contains more than 155 photos of the authors and illustrators, models used for the covers, Nancy Drew collectibles and the oddest items associated with the series. For example, the Guide includes a photo of the ledger page used by Mildred Benson to record her sale of the first Nancy Drew story, a transcript of the first page of the Stratemeyer outline for Volume #3 from 1929, part the of testimony of Mildred Wirt Benson from the 1980 trial between Grosset & Dunlap and Simon & Schuster, a copy of the contract between Benson and the Syndicate for Volume #5, copies of letters between Harriet Adams and Mildred Benson, and between Walter Karig and Mildred Benson, and reproduces the earliest known published article mentioning the series (from 1931), among other great Drewobilia. The Guide includes biographies of Drew writers Mildred Wirt Benson, Walter Karig, Nancy Axelrad, Charles Strong, Margaret Scherf, Alma Sasse, George Waller, illustrators Bill Gillies and Rudy Nappi, and more. The front cover is, well shall we say modestly, a masterpiece. See www.Farahsguide.com for more information. Buyer pays $4.00 in addition to sale price to cover postage for media mail in the United States. Shipping outside the United States requires sufficient amount. Insurance optional for shipping inside the United States, unavailable for shipping outside the United States.