All about Collecting Girls' Series Books: Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton, Cherry Ames, Penny Parker, Kay Tracey, Beverly Gray, Connie Blair, Vicki Barr, Dana [Paperback]

John Axe (Author)

Book Description

Paging through this rich treasury of books will bring back the carefree days of yesteryear. Remember reading under the elm tree during lazy summer days or reading under the covers with a flash light when the story shouted to be finished? Remember how you longed to read the next installment? Additional material has been added to this new encyclopedia of beloved girl's series books by John Axe, including Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton, Cherry Ames, Beverly Gray, Kay Tracey, Penny Parker, Vicki Barr, The Dana Girls, and others, which supplements the author's previous book, 'The Secret of Collecting Girls' Series Books'. All of the titles in these great adventure and mystery series have been brought together in one comprehensive volume. Each different cover or different printing is identified, dated and valued. The book is well researched and documented to identify rarities -- or to inform you which book from your youth you need to locate and buy. This book guides collectors through ALL of the different editions and printings of the most popular girls' series books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Hobby House Press; illustrated edition edition (July 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875886353
• ISBN-13: 978-0875886350
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,164,433 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A slight disappointment, August 7, 2002

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kylerobert "likewow" (Madison, WI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All about Collecting Girls' Series Books: Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton, Cherry Ames, Penny Parker, Kay Tracey, Beverly Gray, Connie Blair, Vicki Barr, Dana (Paperback)

I bought this book because I wanted to see pictures of all the Dana Girls books. I can't believe that is the only series that isn't pictured fully! Only one book cover in each format of the Dana Girls is pictured. All the other series have every book pictured. That was very disappointing. It was fun to see new books added for this update of the author's previous book: Cherry Ames, Connie Blair, and Vicki Barr, but a letdown that the Dana Girls books were overlooked. I probably wouldn't have purchased this if I'd known.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book ..., March 9, 2003

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J. J. Carew (Green Bay, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All about Collecting Girls' Series Books: Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton, Cherry Ames, Penny Parker, Kay Tracey, Beverly Gray, Connie Blair, Vicki Barr, Dana (Paperback)

For the majority of the book, the glossy pages are filled with pictures of nearly every cover of our favorite girls' series books. The Dana Girls section does NOT contain all the different artwork and seems to be slapped together and added to the book at the last moment. But other than that, I liked the book...

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not very informative, July 1, 2003

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Luc (Chapel Hill, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All about Collecting Girls' Series Books: Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton, Cherry Ames, Penny Parker, Kay Tracey, Beverly Gray, Connie Blair, Vicki Barr, Dana (Paperback)

When I first bought this book, I was already collecting most of the series mentioned (There is a of them on the front of the book). The first series mentioned was Ruth Fielding. Four formats were listed, of the five formats that exist. This was the first warning. All through the book, John Axe combined formats, or did not list them at all. Although it gives some nice eronious information (i.e. information about the stratmeyer synicate), most of the contents can be found after a two mininte search on Google. At one point, I emailed John Axe with a few Beverly Gray formats that he did not include in the guide. In his reply, he called them "anomalties", and compared them with some misprints that he owned. As of yet, I have not found a good guide, except ones for individual series. ...