Vintage YA Fiction: Lone Eagle of the Border or Ted Scott & the Diamond Smugglers in Dust Jacket 1930s by Frank Dixon

Title: The Lone Eagle of the Border or Ted Scott and the Diamond Smugglers

Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Illustrator: Walter S. Rogers

Description: Printing circa 1930. Red cloth boards stamped in brown and black. Head and foot of spine lightly pushed. Top edge of text block Previous owner's name and address on front pastedown. Pages bright and generally clean. Color image of Ted Scott on jacket spine. Dust jacket rubbed; bit of chipping and surface wear at head and foot of spine; small chips at fore-corners. DJ in archival sleeve. vi, 214, plus [4] pp. ads. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. Frontispiece illustrated by Walter S. Rogers.

An early printing, circa 1930. The rear panel of the dust jacket lists books in the X-Bar-X Boys series with the latest title being Lost in the Rockies (1930). The latest Ted Scott Flying Story listed on the front flap of the dust jacket is Through the Air to Alaska (1930). The latest Hardy Boys book listed in the front-matter is The Secret of the Caves (1929).

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Very Good–

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Place: New York
Year: 1929

Language: English

ISBN: n/a

Keywords: Walter S. Rogers, Ted Scott Flying Stories, YA, juvenile, fiction, novel,