Saturday, September 19, 2009

Buyer Confusion on Nancy Drew #29

Here is my 29th example of buyer confusion on Nancy Drew:

Nancy Drew THE CLUE IN THE CRUMBLING WALL Item #250480505779

Here is the seller's main picture:


The Clue in the Crumbling Wall had just one dust jacket design in all of the years that it was in print. Apparently many people do not know this fact.
Question: does dustjacket have a white spine ?

Answer: Yes, the dustjacket is white. It has a slight tear at the top. Nixie
A visit to one of several online resources would have answered that question for the buyer.

Nancy Drew Dust Jacket Gallery

Note that only one version of #22 is pictured in the above gallery, and it has a white spine. The buyer probably didn't realize that #22 only had one dust jacket version. The buyer may also thought that some jackets had both the white spine and the wrap spine but kept the same cover art. This is not true. When the jackets were changed to the wrap version, the cover art changed as well. The entire jacket was redone. Of course, #22 was never issued with a wrap dust jacket, so the white spine version is the only version.

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