NMLP P-038999 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew #1)

Carolyn Keene (Mildred Wirt Benson) · Grosset & Dunlap (New York) · 1930

No book-club issue applies. The reprint traps are format changes: the Nancy silhouette added to the cover and jacket, orange silhouette endpapers, the 1937 reduction to a frontispiece only with expanded jacket copy, the 1943 updated frontispiece, the 1950 wraparound jacket with Bill Gillies artwork continuing across the spine, and the 1959 textual revision with five new illustrations. Later "picture cover" (pictorial-board, jacketless) editions and the revised 1959 text are entirely different books from the 1930A-1 format.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038999 for "The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew #1)" by Carolyn Keene (Mildred Wirt Benson) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038999, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).