tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post7790707743170319984..comments2024-03-21T21:37:03.772-05:00Comments on Series Books for Girls: Nancy Drew Readers' Club BooksJennifer Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10405593758228423001noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-82011329397488370182021-03-01T17:57:06.236-06:002021-03-01T17:57:06.236-06:00I love these cameo editions! I remeber when they w...I love these cameo editions! I remeber when they were coming out. One of my friends was a part of the readers club, and she would lend them out to the rest of the girls. <br />I recently found Velvet Mask with a dust jacket for $10. It’s not in MINT condition, but intact enough, so I’m happy. <br />The Nappi promotional artwork is beautiful. I love it. I would like to have a nice reproduction poster of it made, considering its scarcity, I probably can’t afford an original. <br />And I noticed that the illustration of Nancy in the middle of the promo art where she is wearing a blue dress looks a lot like the Bob Berran cover artwork for The Case of the Vanishing Veil (1988). Nancy is in a very similar pose, her hair is styled similarly and is almost the same color, she has the same expression on her face, and she is wearing medium blue in both illustrations. In the promo art, she also reminds me a bit (but not as much) of the Berran cover for The Mysterious Image. I love seeing similarities like this. Has anyone else noticed it or any other interesting coincidences?Setsunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00307596006407957863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-2340572842758567882014-09-02T16:53:51.315-05:002014-09-02T16:53:51.315-05:00http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Nancy-Drew-Reader-...http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Nancy-Drew-Reader-039-s-Club-Poster-Promotional-Advertising-w-Letters-/271586962367?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=IuvWp8tnlAn56Jfw3Fxn6mOhYlI%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nclikewowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13388271283108522115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-21741056654723898332013-01-06T23:36:40.464-06:002013-01-06T23:36:40.464-06:00If you like the Cameo editions but do not have any...If you like the Cameo editions but do not have any of the books, consider purchasing a <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/nancydrewshop.718299790" rel="nofollow">2013 Cameo Editions calendar</a> from Jennifer Fisher.Jennifer Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10405593758228423001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-57050619751642378572013-01-04T14:56:39.315-06:002013-01-04T14:56:39.315-06:00I've had several extra Wooden Lady Cameo books...I've had several extra Wooden Lady Cameo books in the last 10 years, and they have always had the purple ribbon. This meant that I continued to keep the book with the turquoise ribbon with its chipped dust jacket. I finally ended up with a jacket in better shape and switched the jackets. My "new" jacket for the turquoise ribbon Wooden Lady is the one on the far right in the photo. Making that exchange caused me to reflect that most people probably don't know about the turquoise ribbon, so I wrote this post.<br /><br />I didn't mention anything about the scarcity of the promotional materials, but they are very hard to find. I'm pretty sure that no more than six have shown up on eBay in the last 10 years, and I don't know for sure if even that many have. I paid $87.22 for my promotional materials, and I don't think I paid too much.Jennifer Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10405593758228423001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-50824806433022110802013-01-04T14:37:59.570-06:002013-01-04T14:37:59.570-06:00I think your volumes do look nice. I think the Rea...I think your volumes do look nice. I think the Reader's Club promotional material should be put into the "hard to find" category. I've only seen a flyer/poster on eBay twice in five years. As for Cameos, they are a core piece in my collection. Velvet Mask is my favorite book, so it is fitting and appropriate. Interesting that Nappi (you can see his bold signature) was chosen to do the promotional artwork; his Nancy has the same hairstyle as the end papers he designed about the same time. These are indeed, beautiful volumes. The price is seriously inflated and falsely stated due to some collectors over-buying, making scanned jackets (and pretending they were missing a flap), etc. It is hard to tell a scanned jacket on flat paper, from an experiment I did with a scanner and a cameo jacket. The availability was greatly reduced and the affordability went ridiculous due to people buying for PROFIT instead of to upgrade their own collection and selling off. I have a few duplicates, but most are not in great condition; they would serve for reading or viewing copies. Bolian's artwork is indeed, very cool, and trendy for the era. <br /><br />I'm not an expert on these books, but have a little more knowledge than on some other areas. The turquoise Wooden Lady was the hardest for me to find. I think Hidden Staircase was out earlier than Old Clock, because back in the day, it showed up more than the other books in the second set, albeit, without a jacket. . . Kansas Mad Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395887704535857942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-58308013232635181542012-12-30T11:45:09.900-06:002012-12-30T11:45:09.900-06:00You are absolutely right that many sellers fail to...You are absolutely right that many sellers fail to notice when jackets are copies. <br /><br />I had an experience sometime in the last year or so in which I bought a lot of around five Dana Girls books with the blue and red dust jackets. The dust jackets had the "too nice" look of reproductions but I made the mistake of thinking they were real. I should have asked. <br /><br />I received the books to discover that the jackets were copies made by Jim Towey. They were marked on the front flap as copies, although I would have still been able to tell without them being marked. I asked to return the books for a refund. The seller took the books back and refunded me. <br /><br />In this case, I am pretty confident that the seller had not noticed. I believe he was a general bookseller, and something like that would have been easy to miss. I noticed that he never listed the books again, so he must have disposed of them in some other fashion.<br /><br />That's really strange that an Applewood book already had a copied dust jacket. I wonder if the copy was made by one of the several people who were buying up all the Applewood editions for several years. That situation was similar to what happened with the Cameo editions, and it was some of the same people who did it. <br /><br />It's possible that one of them might have copied a jacket for the book and then sold it as rare just like what happened with the Cameos.Jennifer Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10405593758228423001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-17356071937945589642012-12-30T01:53:41.660-06:002012-12-30T01:53:41.660-06:00The reproduction dust jackets are a problem in tha...The reproduction dust jackets are a problem in that many inexperienced sellers may not even realize the jacket is a copy. Ironically, I received an Applewood book with a reproduced jacket once that was sold that way, without any mention of it. (I say it was ironic because those are the newest books with dust jackets and you would think the jackets would still be original.)<br /><br />Your set of cameos looks lovely!Paulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15336088009042727636noreply@blogger.com