A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing of the sixth book from the legendary <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Hardy%20Boys&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hardy Boys</a> series.<ul><li>By Franklin W. Dixon [Leslie McFarlane] (Canadian).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Grosset &amp; Dunlap Publishers,&nbsp;(1928).</li><li>212 pages.</li><li>Bound in the original red publisher's cloth, in the original unclipped (no price) color pictorial dust jacket, featuring cover art by W. S. Rogers, in custom red cloth clamshell with matching red velvet interior inlays.</li></ul> "Who can forget holding a new Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew mystery and studying the cover, then opening it up, feeling the paper, and being drawn into the attention-grabbing swirl of words?" — Kismaric &amp; Heiferman Conceived by Edward Statemeyer in 1926 and soon packaged and sold to Grossett and Dunlap, the first three titles in the Hardy Boys series were all published simultaneously the following year. Their success was almost instantaneous. Part of their popularity and endurance can be directly attributed to the original writer behind the house pseudonym "Franklin W. Dixon," ghostwriter Leslie McFarlane, who later wrote: "It was still hack work, no doubt, but did the new series have to be all that hack? There was, after all, the chance to contribute a little style. It seemed to me that the Hardy Boys deserved something better than the slapdash treatment [...] I opted for Quality." That quality helped propel the series, which ultimately accounted for half of all the Syndicate's sales (Johnson 142). Brothers Frank and Joe Hardy would become cultural touchstones not only through installments such as this early one in the series (which now totals almost 200 titles in all), but numerous reissues, rewrites, movies, specials, television shows, video games, and other spinoffs — so much so that Hardy Boys are now as synonymous with mystery and detection as their more adult counterparts Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, and Philip Marlowe. Both jacket and book are the proper first printing, conforming fully to Carpentieri and Mular.

The Hardy Boys: The Shore Road Mystery First Edition

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a>, first printing of the Hardy Boys adventure The House on the Cliff.<ul><li>Franklin W. Dixon [Leslie McFarlane] (Canadian).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Grosset &amp; Dunlap Publishers,&nbsp;[1927].&nbsp;</li><li>212, [8 - ads] pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original red publisher's cloth with unclipped color pictorial dust jacket.</li><li>Housed in custom red cloth clamshell with matching red velvet interior inlays.</li></ul>

The House on the Cliff (first edition, first printing)

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