Vintage Nurses’ Adventure young readers books (8): Cherry Ames, Nurses Three

Description: The "Nurses" genre of young girls' fiction is an interesting phenomenon -- a sub-genre of teen detective in some cases; in other cases more drama, action, or romance. Two of the most popular examples of the genre are included in this lot: from the 1940s and 1950s, Cherry Ames; from the 1960s, Nurses Three. Cherry Ames was published by Grosset & Dunlap and produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the same publishing warehouse that produced the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. The series of 27 volumes was published between the 1940s and 1960s, with some reprinting in the 1970s. The first few volumes featured Charity "Cherry" Ames pursuing her nursing career and then participating in the war effort; after the end of the war, Cherry became a globe-hopping duty nurse who encountered mysteries everywhere she went. Nurses Three was produced by Western Publishing in the 1960s, and told the stories of a family of three young nurses. Seven novels were produced between 1963 and 1965, and published in familiar Whitman HC editions with picture covers and no DJ. Unlike some Whitmans from the era, these editions were printed with matte boards and no glossy veneer. The Cherry Ames novels included here are all early editions, dated in most cases by the interior list of available books (Grosset series novel reprints typically included, in the front matter, a list of all of the novels in that series; the date of printing matches the date of original publication of the last book in that list.) The Nurses Three books are all original Whitman editions (I don't know if they were ever reprinted) of indeterminate printing dates. Here is a list of the volumes in the set: Cherry Ames: Student Nurse, #1, 1952 printing, tweed boards. The first novel in the series; Cherry heads to nursing school in support of the war effort, and tries to discover the identity of a mystery patient being kept in secret at the hospital. Cherry Ames: Senior Nurse, #2, 1944 printing (possibly first printing), tweed boards. This edition doesn't have an internal list of available books, which suggests it might be a first printing, but it's hard to know. (There is apparently a resource guide available in HC that will help you ID Cherry Ames editions, but I don't have it.) Anyhoo, Cherry, now a senior in the nursing program, takes on a mentor role to a new "probie" and together they try to discover who has stolen a new formula for synthesizing penicillin, key to the ongoing war effort. Cherry Ames: Army Nurse, #3, 1951 printing, dark red boards. Now graduated and officially an RN, Cherry joins up to support the war effort and now Lieutenant Ames heads to the Panama Canal Zone to care for wounded soldiers. Naturally, she uncovers a mystery. Cherry Ames: Chief Nurse, #4, 1952 printing, tweed boards. Cherry heads to the Pacific theater where she faces challenging conditions, under Japanese fire and facing waves of incoming wounded soldiers. She and her twin brother, Charlie, also a lieutenant, uncover a mystery about an injured spy and a dangerous new enemy weapon. Cherry Ames: Flight Nurse, #5, 1945 printing - possibly first. Includes DJ, red boards. The last of the wartime novels, Cherry is now a flight nurse, working with her corpsman Bunce and a former bomber pilot to evacuate injuries from the front lines. She befriends a young war refugee whose father is accused of being a spy; Cherry risks her career to discover the truth. Cherry Ames: Private Duty Nurse, #7, 1952 printing. Cherry is out of the army and becomes a private nurse for a celebrity whose sister has fallen victim to a fortune telling charlatan, risking revelation of a deep family secret. Nurses Three: On Call for Trouble (#4) and Nurses Three: Danger Island (#5). Each novel in the series tells the story of a nursing adventure of one of the three Scott sisters -- Kelly, Penny, and Tracy. Here are the condition notes: Eight books in the lot: six Cherry Ames, two "Nurses Three". Cherry Ames: Flight Nurse has DJ; rough, significant edge wear, chipping, but generally intact. The Cherry Ames volumes are all HC, originally with DJ; DJ is missing on 5 of 6. Two have red boards, two have brown tweed boards. Exteriors are generally good, with moderate to significant edge wear, hinge wear, and rounded/bumped corners. Bindings are all intact with some looseness. The interiors are generally clean with some writing in the front matter in some volumes (names, dates). Pages are generally off white. Two Nurses Three volumes are newer, HC with picture boards common to 60s and 70s Whitman editions. Both show some exterior wear with bright cover images. One has price sticker residue at front right. Both have writing in front (names); some separation at EPs. Binding otherwise intact. Pages generally clean with moderate tanning throughout.

Price: 22 USD

Location: Urbandale, Iowa

End Time: 2024-12-29T14:55:18.000Z

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