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Still in print today are the classic Nancy Drew Mystery Stories--volumes 1-56. You might be surprised in purchasing the yellow spine picture covers at your local bookstores to find that the first 34 stories are a rather baffling mystery! They may be shorter than you remember them, the language has been updated, and Nancy's snappy roadster is now your run of the mill convertible. In short, they have been revised.
Beginning in 1959 until 1978, the first 34 stories were revised by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. These revisions removed stereotypes, outdated language, and overall updated the stories and shortened them for modern readers.
Never fear, if you are missing an original text or want to read one and you cannot find one in grandma's attic, you can sleuth them out at used bookstores, antique malls, or online at eBay.com. Applewood Books reprinted 1-21 of the originals--just as you remember them. The key to deciphering whether you have an original or not, is that your book will have 25 chapters( not 20. )
These books are considered the "classic" series due to their being the original mysteries and being in print for over 75 years and counting while paperback series and spin-offs have come and gone. These are the stories that have been passed down from generation to generation and have become favorites of Nancy Drew readers.
Over the years, the cover illustrations and internal illustrations underwent changes as well. Visit the Collecting Nancy Drew - Formats section of this site for a breakdown of artwork changes as well as format information on the various styles of dust jackets, cover board styles, endpapers, and yellow spine picture cover types.
Below, you will find images of the classic 56 covers going from earliest on the left to latest covers on the far right. Keep in mind, not only was there only one cover art for volumes 35-56, there was also just one text--it was never revised. For those books that have been revised--volumes 1-34--there may be two synopses listed. One will be for the original and one for the revision where the revision varies significantly in plot or story from the original.
Also for yellow spine picture cover editions - there were also official Grosset & Dunlap picture cover library editions--these feature a lavender spine and on the back cover a library logo - so if you have one of these, it's a library edition. Book #56 has a yellow spine, not lavender.
