ISBN: 9780448091020 - Tom Swift and His Jetmarine (22 results)

Condition: Acceptable. Note! Very rough reading copy. Has loose spine/binding. Pages still intact. Has lots of wear. Meets the acceptable condition guidelines. Five star seller - Buy with confidence. Graham Kaye (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Graham Kaye (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Graham Kaye (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Graham Kaye (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Graham Kaye (illustrator).

Glazed Boards. Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). Reprint. Reprint. Hard cover 8vo in illustrated boards. About Five w/owner info front endpaper, else Fine and unmarked; no DJ, as issued. 208pp; illustrated by Graham Kaye. 208 p. Graham Kaye (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Graham Kaye (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Previous owner's name on the front free page. Secure packaging for safe delivery. Graham Kaye (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (juvenile, fiction, adventure) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Graham Kaye (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Reprint. Reprint (back cover lists through Triphibian Atomicar). Edges lightly soiled, boards lightly rubbed, front hinge just beginning to weaken, ink name and address on front endpaper. 1954 Hard Cover. 208 pp. Pictorial boards, illustrations and endpapers by Graham Kaye. "Tom Swift, Jr., and his associates try to unravel the relationship between the dog coins and the mysterious blackouts near Spaniel Island."  "Tom Swift Jr. is the protagonist of a series of juvenile adventure novels aimed at male adolescents, following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift ('Senior') novels. The series was entitled The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures. Unlike the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys titles that were also products of the prolific Stratemeyer Syndicate, the original Tom Swift stories were not rewritten in the 1950s to modernize them. It was decided that the protagonist of the new series would be the son of the earlier Tom Swift and his wife, Mary Nestor Swift; the original hero continued as a series regular, as did his pal Ned Newton. For the Tom Swift Jr. series the books were outlined mostly by Harriet (Stratemeyer) Adams, head of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, attributed to the pseudonymous Victor Appleton II, and published in hardcover by Grosset & Dunlap. Most of the books were written by James Duncan Lawrence, who had an interest in science and technology and was faithful to the canon of the previous Tom Swift series. Title #7, Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter, has several references to the first series including a visit with Mrs. Baggert, who was Tom Sr.'s housekeeper, and other volumes feature a rocket named after the old family retainer Eradicate "Rad" Sampson, a radiation-detector (the Damonscope) named after Tom Sr.'s friend Mr. Damon, and a planetoid named in honor of Tom Swift Sr.'s father Barton. As in the original series, the basic locale is the quaint town of Shopton, New York, on Lake Carlopa. James Lawrence once said that Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar was one of his favorite Tom Swift Jr. stories. Typical story elements include Tom's loyal and quip-prone friend Bud Barclay, his comic-relief cook 'Chow' Winkler, spies (typically from Soviet stand-ins Brungaria or Kranjovia), use of a wonder-material called Tomasite that did anything the story needed, the amazingly versatile force-ray repelatron, and atomic-powered everything, including the aforesaid atomicar. The first invention of the series (and the one making the most frequent appearances in subsequent stories), the Flying Lab (named Sky Queen), was a giant VTOL research airplane the size of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Mention must be made of the role of the book covers in vivifying memories of the books. Mostly by ex-Saturday Evening Post illustrator (J.) Graham Kaye, the covers burst with color and excitement and the sheer romance of invention. Covers in the later half of the series, mostly by Charles Brey, were less detailed and reflected Brey's more modernistic style. The Tom Swift Jr. stories had stronger science-fiction elements than the earlier series, particularly in the later volumes. One subplot which, beginning on the first page of the first volume, ran the length of the series, is Tom's communication, via mathematical 'space symbols,' with beings from 'Planet X.' This mystery is never completely resolved despite the beings sending an artificial 'energy brain' to occupy a robot body built by Tom in book #17. A total of 33 volumes were eventually published. The stories offered science that was more intriguing than accurate. Yet, the characters and titles are well-remembered and lovingly regarded, and a number of scientists, researchers, and engineers (including Apple Computer's Steve Wozniak) profess to having been set on their courses by Tom Swift Jr. The 'Tom Swifties' style of dialogue writing played no role in the actual series. Graham Kaye (illustrator). …

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Graham Kaye (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 7.4 X 4.9 X 0.9 inches; 208 pages. Graham Kaye (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. Book 2. (juvenile fiction, science fiction) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Graham Kaye (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Included. Vintage edition. Good book, missing dust jacket. Blue tweed binding, with some soiling. Endpapers are a blue & white scene of Tom staring out a window. Page tops stained a medium blue. Boards and spine are bumped a little, and there is light shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked. Grosset & Dunlap hard cover, dating from the 1950s, illustrated by Graham Kaye. 8vo (7.5" x 5.25"). Graham Kaye (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Used Good. Graham Kaye (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dustjacket. Wear to covers and edges. Graham Kaye (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Graham Kaye (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good+ dust. The dustjacket is now protected in a new, removable archival sleeve.; Lists to Tom Swift and His Deep Sea Hydrodome inside the front, so likely a 1958 printing.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8"; 208 pages. Graham Kaye (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Vintage edition. Very good book in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has minor edgewear, with tiny chips at flap folds, and small closed tears; publisher's promotional offer printed on front; now in new removable protective cover. Blue paper binding with full color dust jacket, endpapers are a blue & white scene of Tom staring out a window. Page tops stained a medium blue. Pages are clean and unmarked. Grosset & Dunlap hard cover with dust jacket, 1954 edition but later printing, 208 pages, illustrated by Graham Kaye. 8vo (7.5" x 5.25") Tom Swift and His Jetmarine (The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures, #2) by John Almquist, writing as Victor Appleton II. Tom Swift titles in book list through #14, Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope, published in 1959; Tom Swift titles on rear flap list through #13, Tom Swift and His Space Solartron, published in 1958. List of Hardy Boys books on rear DJ panel goes through #38, The Mystery at Devil's Paw, published in 1959. Graham Kaye (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Vintage edition. Very good book in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has minor edgewear, with tiny chips at flap folds, and small closed tears; now in new removable protective cover. Blue paper binding with full color dust jacket, endpapers are a blue & white scene of Tom staring out a window; old bookstore price on front free end paper is whited out. Page tops stained a medium blue. Boards have a bump but are otherwise in excellent condition with very little wear. Pages are clean and unmarked. Grosset & Dunlap hard cover with dust jacket, 1954 edition but probably a 1961 printing, 208 pages, illustrated by Graham Kaye. 8vo (7.5" x 5.25") Tom Swift and His Jetmarine (The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures, #2) by John Almquist, writing as Victor Appleton II. Tom Swift titles in book list through #17, Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X, published in 1961; Tom Swift titles on rear flap list through #16, Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts published in 1960. Graham Kaye (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. A very good minus hardback book with NO inscriptions or other marks. Clean, tight & virtually unworn but with age browning to the page edges. Blue covers, with deep dark blue titling and picture of Tom Swift on the front. In the original unclipped dust-jacket (original price 5/-) which has a few very small 'closed' nicks near the top & bottom of spine, and some very light rubbing along top and bottom edges - negligible. Front of the d/j shows a submarine surrounded by an Octopus. The dust-jacket is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks VG. Undated, carries only the 1954 copyright date of the original US Grosset & Dunlap edition - this UK edition is probably a little later? . Slight tan offsetting to the pictorial endpapers, but o/w internally Fine. 192 pp. Illustrated with a full page b/w frontispiece and other b/w illustrations in the text by Graham Kaye. Tom Swift is the main character of five series of American juvenile science fiction and adventure novels that emphasize science, invention, and technology. See Images. ; The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall. Illustrated by Graham Kaye (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Graham Kaye (illustrator).