Buyer Confusion on Nancy Drew #8

Check out this listing:

NANCY DREW THE MYSTERY OF CROCODILE ISLAND # 55 Item #190241929892

At first glance, this book appears to be a matte picture cover edition of volume 55. All the seller states about the book is that it is "HARD COVER, YELLOW BINDING." What a detailed description. Remember to be observant. It helps that I collect library bindings, which is why I believe that this book is a library binding.


The book cannot be a flashlight edition since it does not have the yellow band along the top with the flashlight logo. The book appears to be a matte picture cover, but the book looks a little shiny in the picture. Matte PCs are not shiny. Notice that the spine has a library sticker. The book must be a library discard. The colors look a bit off in the picture. It is just not quite right. At any rate, the cover does not look like any matte PCs of #55 that I have seen. Compare the image to this matte PC:

So what is it? Most likely the book is a Perma-Bound library binding. To see other Perma-Bound Nancy Drew books, go to this page:

http://www.series-books.com/nancydrew/minstrela.html

Scroll down a little bit to see the Perma-Bound books. The book from the auction looks like the front cover illustration has been reproduced poorly, like the Perma-Bound books. The front cover looks like a color photocopy, which is how the Perma-Bound covers are created.