Tom Swift Giant Magnet Bringing by Victor Appleton (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Vintage reprint edition in green cloth with black print on front and spine. Good book in like dust jacket. Dust jacket has edge wear, with small chips at spine; now in new removable protective cover. Jacket lists 9 of the 10 Tom Swift titles Whitman reprinted. Plain end papers, with prior owner's name in pencil. Pages are clean and unmarked, on aging paper. Whitman hard cover with dust jacket, 1937, Whitman #2169, reprint of 1932 Grosset and Dunlap first edition with different art; 216 pages; 12mo (7.5" x 5"). Tom Swift and His Giant Magnet; or, Bringing Up the Lost Submarine (Tom Swift #35), by Howard R. Garis, writing as Victor Appleton. This is the last Tom Swift novel by the original author, who wrote the first 35 novels in the series. The remaining 5 books in the series were written by others. Tom invents a giant electromagnet to help process scrap iron, but it comes in handy when the Navy loses an experimental submarine.

12mo. iv, 216 pp. Brown textured publisher's boards, black lettering (uniform interior toning as usual, minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of Tom Swift and his magnet (minor edgewear, slight chipping foot of spine), still VG/VG copy, w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First Whitman edition, of No. 35 in the Tom Swift Series, which was published in 1937 after Whitman had purchased the rights to the series, and only printed the last of the 10 Tom Swift Sr. series with new dustjackets.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Falk, Nat (illustrator). Assumed First Edition. Binding tight. Interior clean other than previous owner's name written in black marker inside front board. Same previous owner blacked out writing on ffep; marker has bled through onto back of frontispiece. Frontispiece by Nat Falk; decorative end pages show many of Tom Swift's inventive ideas. Orange boards vivid and in good condition; corners and spine ends bumped. Back board slightly soiled, and front board has a couple of smudges. When a scrap yard owner wants a larger, more powerful magnet to help make his business more efficient, Tom is up to the task. One of Tom's rivals sees an opportunity, and a competition ensues. Assumed first edition as this is the last title on the series list on backside of title page and at end of book. 216pp., followed by lists of other similar series from the publisher.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Nat Falk (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition in brown cloth with first issue dust jacket (with Don Sturdy's Ocean Bottom as the last title on the back panel). Dust jacket has Swift titles 1-35 (Magnet) on front flap and Sturdy titles 1 -11 (Ocean) on rear panel. Publisher ad at rear has Swift titles 1- 35 ending in Giant Magnet. Title list on copyright page lists 35 Tom Swift titles and 11 Don Sturdy titles. Very good book in fair dust jacket. Jacket has numerous chips and closed tears, including missing the top .25 inch at the top of the spine panel and the bottom 1 inch of the spine panel; now in new removable protective cover. The white on the spine and rear panel has darkened with age; and a prior owner has made pencil ticks on some of the titles on the Tom Swift list on the front flap. Light brown cloth covered boards, with black print on spine and front, and red and black Tom Swift "quad" type illustration, with Tom in four modes of transportation (airplane, motor car, motor cycle, and motor boat) at the four corners of the front and the title in large oval in the center of the front. Plain end papers, with gift inscription dated Christmas 1934. Frontispiece on glossy paper, tipped-in. Pages are clean and unmarked, on good quality paper. Grosset and Dunlap hard cover with dust jacket, 1932, first edition and first printing; 216 pages; cover art and frontispiece by Nat Falk. 12mo (7.5" x 5") Tom Swift and His Giant Magnet; or, Bringing Up the Lost Submarine (Tom Swift #35), by Howard R. Garis, writing as Victor Appleton. This is the last Tom Swift novel by the original author, who wrote the first 35 novels in the series. This item ships with signature confirmation.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Nat Falk (illustrator). First Edition. Condition is much better than the typical Tom Swifts of this era. #35 out of 40 in the original Tom Swift Series. Book exterior is in fine shape, with light wear only on the head and tail of the spine and at the corners. ***RARE***Mustard/Tan cloth cover with quadrant design. Most copies of this title were produced in the orange binding, and this tan one is VERY HARD TO FIND. Crisp, bright colors, with slight soiling on the rear cover. Interior is clean and almost tight. 216 pgs. + ads.