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Collecting
Unique Items
Advertising
Very infrequently, a piece of Three
Investigators advertising shows up online or at library sales, flea markets,
etc. The library bookmark discussed in Random House - The Original 43: Paperback is one example. Posters, signs, dump boxes (cardboard
box displays used in book stores), magazine advertisements and catalog
pages are others. All can be very unique additions to a
Three Investigators collection.
The following is the bottom of a
1971 catalog page in which Three Investigators and Nancy Drew books were
featured under the "Adventure" genre:
Here, you can see the text of The Three Investigators portion, in which
a "three-book starter set" and single titles could be purchased for $3.99
and $1.79, respectively:
Review Copies
Review copies are books sent out
by the publisher for review in newspapers, magazines, teaching journals,
etc. They are usually sent out at least a few weeks prior to publication
to allow the reviewers enough time to complete their work.
For Three Investigators books, review copies can be found in both hardcover
and paperback. They are only differentiated from copies sold to the
public by the review form inserted loose in the textblock or taped to an
endpaper. As can be expected, review copies with the form intact
are quite rare.
The following is the review form
from a GLB First Printing of #31 The Mystery of the Scar-Faced Beggar.
It was taped to the front free endpaper and includes a few pieces of interesting
information, such as the publishing month and price:
Remainder Marks
Both hardcover and paperback Three Investigators books can often be
found with a remainder mark. This mark designates that the book did
not sell at the published price; extra or defective stock of the book was
remaindered to a wholesale dealer for discount sales. The mark is
usually a red or black stamp in the form of the publisher's symbol (in
this case, the Random House "house") on the bottom edge of the textblock
or simply a red marker line in the same location. Remaindered Three
Investigators books are quite common, but the can be an interesting footnote to a completist's collection.
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