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Cover Types
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Key:
WSDJ=White Spine Dust Jacket
YSDJ=Yellow Spine Dust Jacket
WrS=Wrap Spine Dust Jacket
DH=Detective Handbook
WHAM=What Happened at Midnight
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Notes:
  1. This is a rough guide to cover formats. If you want to get technical, I suggest Hardy and Hardy Investigations.
  2. Maroon Short Wave Mystery is normally considered a [rare] printing error, since it was just one print run and only on one book. 
 
Cover Type:
Red
Brown
Cover Picture:
Used on:
Came With:
First eleven volumes
WSDJ - 1927-1932
Firsty Thirty Volumes
1-12 WSDJ, 1-30 YSDJ, WHAM in WrSDJ  - 1932-1951
Cover Type:
Maroon
"Tweed," or Grey
Cover Picture:
Used on:
Came With:
24 (Short-Wave Mystery)
YSDJ - 1945
First 40 Volumes
Various YSDJ, All WrSDJ - 1951-1962
Cover Type:
Picture Cover Matte
Picture Cover Flashlight
Cover Picture:
 
Used on:
Came With:
All 58 books & DH (oversized)
1962-1987
All 58 books
1987-Now
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