I completed a number of sets of books this year, and I also read most of them before the end of the year. As always, click on each image to see a larger version.
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| Complete Set of Troy Nesbit/Franklin Folsom Books |
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| Complete Set of Tom Quest Books |
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| Complete Set of the Mill Creek Irregulars Series |
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| Complete Set of Sandy Steele Books |
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| Complete Set of Brad Forrest Books |
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| Complete Set of the Secret Circle Mysteries |
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| Partial Set of the Ted Wilford Series |
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| Complete Set of the Bret King Series |
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| Complete Set of the Girls of Canby Hall Series |
I already owned the complete set of Biff Brewster books, but this year I upgraded all of my bare tweed books to books with dust jackets.
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| Complete Set of the Biff Brewster Series |
I read the Rick Brant series late last year and loved them so much that I wanted to own original copies of all 24 books. I upgraded my reprint of #23 to the original edition and purchased the original edition of #22. I also saw a Buy It Now for #24 that was priced at the lowest anybody would probably ever be willing to ask for it. #24 was high, certainly, but it was at the lowest one would be priced and far less than what the seller asked for his second copy after I purchased mine. The second copy was priced at about double the price I paid and also sold quickly.
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| Rick Brant #22, 23, and 24 |
If you have always been a girls' series fan like me and don't think you would ever like Rick Brant, please try at least one book to make sure. I never thought I would like Rick Brant and had sold all the copies I had found over the years. I found almost a complete set in the summer of 2014 and tried the first book. I was surprised about how much I enjoyed it. Never assume you won't like a series without making sure first.
The following two photos show four different library editions I purchased that fall into the "scarce and unusual" category, ones that seldom come up for sale.
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| Nancy Drew and Dana Girls Library Editions |
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| Nancy Drew and Dana Girls Library Editions |
I found a copy of Tom Swift #33 locally. This is the second one I have ever found. The first one was in 1998.
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| Tom Swift #33 |
Just last week I found the Hardy Boys Twisted Claw picture cover with the Nancy Drew list on the back cover. I also found one back in around 1999.
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| Hardy Boys Twisted Claw with Nancy Drew Titles |
It is interesting to find two different scarce books within a few months of each other, and the last time I found a copy of either book was during the late 1990s.
1 comment:
I bought a complete set of Kay Tracey books on ebay from someone who was moving to a smaller home. The only other complete series I have is Donna Parker (which aren't even my favorite) as there are only 7. All of my other series are still in progress :)
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