The Hardy Boys Mystery Of The Desert Giant by Franklin W. Dixon

Small 8vo. Tan tweed paper over boards with brown lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 182pp. Frontispiece, tan pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn, with inoffensive small abrasion at upper front flap from sticker removal. A handsome and tight first edition of #40 in the popular "Hardy Boys" series, with all proper points ("100-140" at bottom of front flap, lists to this title on interior list, 17 "Tom Swift" titles on rear jacket panel and 5 "Bret King" titles on rear flap)