Buddy on Floating Island, or a Boy's Wonderful Secret; Dust jacket title: Buddy on Floating Island. The Buddy Series

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1933. Later printing. Boards. Near fine/very good. [Russell TANDY, dust jacket illustrator]. Later printing. Number 9 in The Buddy Series. 12mo; 210pp; black-stamped red pebbled boards, vignette pictorial to front; patterned endpapers with a printed bookplate (not used); b&w frontispiece; shelf scuff to spine tail and bottom corners, paper age-toned; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, front flap lists books through number 20. Buddy and the G-Man Mystery; light soiling to rear, small closed tear to bottom edge rear panel; near fine in very good dj. Not to be confused with the Buddy Books for Boys published by Grosset & Dunlap, The Buddy Series was a 1930s series of 21 books for young boy readers, from 6-10 years of age. The front flap states, "You will more than like BUDDY with his carefree ways, his cheerful smile, his boundless enthusiasm and his overflowing youth. BUDDY is certain to linger in your memory long after you have finished these stories.".