[Signed] [First Edition] Mystery of the Secret Drawer...

A Very Good copy, clean and unmarked. The front free endpaper bears a longitudinal crease, which is now flattened. Paper is of thin wartime stock but, pleasantly, shows no signs of brittling or tearing. The jacket is intact, though bearing creasing, chipping, and tears. Black and white illustrations by Sandra James throughout. Stated first printing. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front pastedown; dated in the year of publication. 105 pages. 5.5" x 8.25". Helen Fuller Orton (18721955) was a prolific and popular writer of children's and young adult stories. In Mystery of the Secret Drawer (1945), after a bountiful wheat harvest, the Richards family is looking forward to a change of fortune. That is, until the money from the sale goes missing from its secret drawer .

Estimation:€165.85

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