Tom Swift Flying Lab New by Appleton Victor (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Appleton, Victor THE NEW TOM SWIFT JR. ADVENTURES 1: TOM SWIFT AND HIS FLYING LAB New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers 1954 VG 208 pp. 12mo. Printed boards are scuffed on front and back with wear and bending at corners and edges especially at top and bottom of spine. Pages are age toned and held by loose binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Graham Kaye (illustrator). Not Stated. A very good hardcover in a very good dust jacket. No markings. An exceptional copy. There are 208 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Kaye, Graham (illustrator). Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book Club.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Graham Kaye (illustrator). (1954) 208 pp. Original blue tweed covers, very bright and clean. Spine a bit sunned. Blue and white endpapers. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ wear and several short tears to edges. Tiny chip to top edge of front panel. DJ rear panel advertises "The New Tom Swift Jr. Books," and list 4 titles. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good++. Graham Kaye (illustrator). This is the first book in the Tom Swift Jr. Series. Color illustrated Mylar-protected dust-jacket shows Tom in striped shirt with the Flying Lab in the background. Rear dust-jacket flap lists to Spectromarine Selector. Rear dust-jacket cover lists Hardy Boys titles to Chinese Junk. Dust-jacket is excellent, with only the slightest of wear at the corners and edges, and at the head and tail of the spine. Blue tweed boards are superb, and the interior is VERY clean and tight. Front matter of book lists to Spectromarine Selector. 208 pgs.

Ten vols. 8vo. 208; 208; 208; 211, [1]; 210; 210; 214; 214; 214; 214 pp. Frontisp., numerous text illustrations. Blue tweed boards, blue lettering (minor shelfwear, rubbing, occasional wear to corners), w/ d.j.'s cover art by Kaye (occasional chipping to spines, minor creasing, edgewear), still a VG/VG bright uniform set. First editions, early printings of Nos. 1-10 in the New Tom Swift, Jr. science fiction series, listing to most frequently to No. 13 Solartron on versos of half-title, whereas most ads on back covers, list up to No. 12, with Cycloplane listing uniformly to itself, and first three only listing up to 5 titles. Harriet Adams re-launched the Tom Swift concept in 1954, based on the original series co-written by her father Edward Stratemeyer, and Howard Garis. Although she was heavily involved in rewriting the Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys titles removing some of the more offensive racial overtones of the original printings, they launched an entirely new science fiction series, drawing on three PhD scientific consultants, sparking the imaginations and efforts of Steve Wozniak of Apple Computer, Jack Cover who invented the Taser, and resonating with Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.