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Sunday, March 6, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Nancy Drew 2011 Convention Clues #29
Meet Elizabeth & A.B.!Hi! I’m Elizabeth Morgan Walters, a 51-year-old Real Housewife of Williamson County in central Texas, married to the greatest husband in the world, Mr. A.B. Walters. I still have my childhood collection of Nancy Drew yellow picture covers that my parents bought me from 1970-1973. Because during this time some of the books were still “Original Text” and others were “Revised Text”, I became interested in noting the differences between the two.
As an adult I collected a copy of an Original and Revised Text of each book in the “Classic 56”. Then I decided to collect a book with an example of each cover art in the Classic 56, focusing on picture covers where possible. Of course I do have some dust jacketed books in my collection, but none of them are particularly rare or valuable, except on a sentimental level. My husband and I started attending Nancy Drew conventions the year we got married, 2007, so this will be our fifth one! Since the 2007 convention, my husband has read the original texts of numbers 1-41.
At the last convention we had the pleasure of meeting Rudy Nappi and my husband bought us the cover art for OLD ALBUM and LEANING CHIMNEY. I look forward to lots of spooky adventures with y’all in Virginia! We all owe a big debt of gratitude to Jennifer for setting up this fun organization.
Elizabeth & A.B.
As an adult I collected a copy of an Original and Revised Text of each book in the “Classic 56”. Then I decided to collect a book with an example of each cover art in the Classic 56, focusing on picture covers where possible. Of course I do have some dust jacketed books in my collection, but none of them are particularly rare or valuable, except on a sentimental level. My husband and I started attending Nancy Drew conventions the year we got married, 2007, so this will be our fifth one! Since the 2007 convention, my husband has read the original texts of numbers 1-41.
At the last convention we had the pleasure of meeting Rudy Nappi and my husband bought us the cover art for OLD ALBUM and LEANING CHIMNEY. I look forward to lots of spooky adventures with y’all in Virginia! We all owe a big debt of gratitude to Jennifer for setting up this fun organization. Elizabeth & A.B.
Nancy Drew 2011 Convention Clues #28
Meet Dawn!Growing up in the late 1950's and 1960's in rural Brevard, North Carolina, I read the Nancy Drew stories feverishly, first the dust jacketed editions and more often the later picture cover ones. I remember buying the books at the local Crest dime store and exchanging with friends to make sure I read every one. I have always been a voracious reader and also read "good" literature. But I can still remember being enraptured by Nancy and the stories, not being able to put down the books. As I became a teenager, I stopped reading those books. I re-discovered my love of Nancy Drew in the early 1990's, when I was called home to clear out my old childhood "stuff" from my mother's basement, including boxes of my old children's books. I travel for work and started spending travel time and weekends around the Greensboro, NC area (where I have lived for 25 years) checking out every used book store and antique store. In the 1990's, it was much easier to find books in these stores. I collect all the girls series by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, Grosset & Dunlap and earlier Cupples & Leon publications. My favorite finds will probably always be the first two "thick" Nancy Drews' I found in stores, The Clue in the Diary in an old used book store and The Haunted Bridge in an antique store, mixed in among older, "thick' Bobbsey Twins.
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The Nancy Drew's with dust jackets are on a book shelf in the living room. I have a pretty complete set, need a few unusual printings and need most of the first format's (I have a 3rd printing of Old Clock with laser dust jacket, a Bungalow Mystery with a real dust jacket in first format 4th printing, and a first format Shadow Ranch without dust jacket).
Nancy Drew picture covers are on a book shelf in the downstairs den. Have a full set of original story and revised story picture covers (although not necessarily first printings) and all the original paperbacks through #175. Also other book formats and collectibles (some of these are behind the picture cover books on each shelf and can't be seen here).Dawn
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Nancy Drew 2011 Convention Clues #27
Win Nancy Drew Prizes!I'm going to be giving away a prize a week here at the Blog leading up to the convention--there are 4 weeks so there will be 4 prizes. This week's prize is one of our Hidden Window coin purses as shown.
To win this prize, you must comment on this week's convention clues Blogs. We've posted 2 so far and this one and there will be more later in the week. All those who comment (include your full name when commenting) will be entered into the drawing. Prizes will be given out at the convention. These weekly prize drawings are only open to those attending the Charlottesville, VA convention!
Also, anyone who follows in LuAnn's footsteps and shares a photo of you and/or your collection and a brief bio and your collecting info, will also be entered to win that week's prize.Jenn:)
Nancy Drew 2011 Convention Clues #26
Meet Lisa!Poet Lisa Kwong will be speaking at our Nancy Drew convention day on Sat. April 2nd at the Holiday Inn University in Charlottesville, VA. She will be reading poetry to the crowd and wowing us with her cleverness :-)
We've previously printed one of her Nancy Drew poems, Sleuthing for Love, in The Sleuth.
Lisa will be a M.F.A. candidate in Poetry at Indiana University-Bloomington in Fall 2011. A 2010 Frost Place scholarship recipient, Lisa received a B.A. in English from Appalachian State University (A.S.U.) in Boone, NC. Her poems have appeared online at Ishmael Reed’s Konch, www.news.appstate.edu, AlYoung.org, and The Tower Journal. Her poems have also been published in Floyd County Moonshine, The Sleuth, and Virginia English Bulletin. She has performed her poems at A.S.U., Radford University, Ferrum College, and The Frost Place. She will be a featured performer at the 10th annual Diversity Celebration at A.S.U.
Lisa read the Nancy Drew mysteries as a child and rediscovered them after graduating from college. Since 2005, she has been a series book collector, enthusiast, and scholar. In 2010, she organized an 80th anniversary party and children's program at Radford Public Library in VA, and she also participated in the panel "The Mysterious Allure of Nancy Drew" at A.S.U., which helped launch the Girls Studies minor in the Women's Studies program. At the 2011 Sleuths Convention in Charlottesville, Lisa will debut some new Nancy Drew-inspired poems and discuss why the world of Nancy Drew is a viable subject for poetry.
Jenn:)
Nancy Drew 2011 Convention Clues #25
Meet LuAnn!We'll be previewing those of you who want to share a photo of you and/or your Nancy Drew collection and a brief bio for other members attending the Nancy Drew convention in Charlottesville, VA. If interested, e-mail me a photo and a bio!
I grew up in the Finger Lakes area of New York State on a steady diet of Nancy Drew, exploring the woods alone and with my brother and going to school. For the past 18 years I’ve lived in Central Pennsylvania with my husband and five children all of whom we homeschooled. Two are currently in college while three are still home. Besides a homeschooling parent, I am a spiritual director and enjoy reading, learning, travel, art, gardening, crafts and friendship.
Nancy saw me through some rocky years as a child–I could escape to River Heights and join Nancy in having fun with friends, facing adventure and danger, traveling the world and solving mysteries from the basis of a stable home and loving family. My mom was always trying to get me to read something ‘better’, like AoGG, and I did read a lot of other books, but for a while, ND was my favorite. While not great literature, I learned a lot of vocabulary, geography and miscellany from them (such as about carrier pigeons.
I started collecting Nancy Drew Mysteries in college when I needed something fun to do (besides study ;-), adding to the dozen or so I had. Not knowing then about first editions, my collection consists only of what I found in used bookstores in the 80s: the blue tweed and the yellow spine. Recently I completed my original text set by making sure I had every one with the earlier picture cover (mostly Nappi, of course) for which one is available. To me the covers are an integral part of the ND experience. I also own several of the books about ND. Will I ever get into first edition? Not sure about that as I’d like to collect Judy Bolton since I live within a few hours of Margaret Sutton’s hometown which is the setting of the JB books in Central Pennsylvania and the realism of them entices me. This will be my first convention, and I'm greatly looking forward to it!
LuAnn
Nancy saw me through some rocky years as a child–I could escape to River Heights and join Nancy in having fun with friends, facing adventure and danger, traveling the world and solving mysteries from the basis of a stable home and loving family. My mom was always trying to get me to read something ‘better’, like AoGG, and I did read a lot of other books, but for a while, ND was my favorite. While not great literature, I learned a lot of vocabulary, geography and miscellany from them (such as about carrier pigeons.
I started collecting Nancy Drew Mysteries in college when I needed something fun to do (besides study ;-), adding to the dozen or so I had. Not knowing then about first editions, my collection consists only of what I found in used bookstores in the 80s: the blue tweed and the yellow spine. Recently I completed my original text set by making sure I had every one with the earlier picture cover (mostly Nappi, of course) for which one is available. To me the covers are an integral part of the ND experience. I also own several of the books about ND. Will I ever get into first edition? Not sure about that as I’d like to collect Judy Bolton since I live within a few hours of Margaret Sutton’s hometown which is the setting of the JB books in Central Pennsylvania and the realism of them entices me. This will be my first convention, and I'm greatly looking forward to it!
LuAnn
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Nancy Drew Cafe Press Sale Mar 1-3 10% off $40+
Nancy Drew Shop 10% off $40.00+ Sale!WHEN: Mar. 1 - Mar. 3, 2011
SAVE: 10% off orders of $40+
CODE: AMAR1140
WHERE: www.cafepress.com/nancydrewshop
Thanks for your support!
Jenn:)
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