Tom Swift Giant Robot by Appleton Victor (67 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

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.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Good condition. 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. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

mass_market. Condition: Good. Good. Used with wear but is still in solid reading condition. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Mass Market Paperback. Cover has shelf and edge wear, wear and creasing to cover and spine. Soiling and discoloring to back cover. Fading to pages and page edges. Kept in plastic sleeve for protection. Tracking available on most domestic orders.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Reprint, MAD 58600-4-3, rear board lists through book 22, prelim through 20. No jacket as issued. Spine faded. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1958 Hard Cover. 211 pp. Color pictorial boards, blue pictorial endpapers. Includes illustrations by Graham Kaye. "When the Swift Enterprises undertakes to set up an atomic laboratory for the U.S. Government, Tom Jr. goes to work on a giant robot that can function by remote control when exposed to deadly atomic and hydrogen rays."  "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.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; otherwise in excellent condition. Acceptable Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages are clean and bright with no markings. Binding is fine. Minor rubbing to the edges and corners of the blue coverboards. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Graham Kaye (illustrator). Book 4 in the Tom Swift Jr. series. Deep blue portrait titles on light blue tweed paper covered boards. Blue pictorial end papers. Top edge sprayed blue. Dust jacket is heavily edge worn with 2" tear on lower rear edge of spine but is presentable within new Brodart sleeve.

Condition: GOOD. Later printing. Illustrated by Graham Kaye. Lists through #17 in this series. In blue tweed covers, blue and white illustrated endpapers. 211 pp. Good only condition (some sunning to the spine and edges of the covers, corners bumped, spine slant, no dj.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. There is light corner wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Kaye, Graham (illustrator). First Edition Later Printing. Vol.#4 in the second Tom Swift series, which was comprised of 33 volumes written under the pseudonym Victor Appleton II. Orig. published in 1954 in the original blue tweed cloth-covered hardcover format wrap-around pictorial DJs, this is a later printing, listing to TS#13 in front matter & on back DJ flap & to HB#38 on back DJ cover.(Please see our listing #019791 for a true First Edition, first printing, of this title). In 211 pages with a plain frontispiece & blue/white endpapers by illustrator Graham Kaye. Book condition is VG: very clean, binding straight & strong, hinges intact, pages creamy white with very mild tanning to outer edges & dust dulling to outside edges, else unmarked. Rubbing to extremities & bumped corners. The unclipped DJ is only Good-/Fair, with major paper loss to spine, light creasing & minor edgewear all around. Bright & colorful; nicely protected in new mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! All orders processed before 2 pm weekdays (PST) ship that same day; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Kaye, Graham (illustrator). Hardcover with worn, but colorful, fair condition dust jacket. Book would be vg save for a worn off corner at top of spine. Previous owner initials and a few spots, otherwise clean. DJ now in mylar cover. ; New Tom Swift Jr Adventures; Vol. 4; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 211 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good/Good. Black & White Illustrations, Frontispeice (illustrator). New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Good/Good. 1969. . Hardcover w/DJ. 12mo., 211pp. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Graham Kaye (illustrator). dj w/lite wear, uncliped price, in mylar; blue illustrated end papers; 211 clean, unmarked pages; list to RTace to the Moon on dj back panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures. No DJ. Edge wear. Color pictorial boards. Else, tight and square. Corner bumped. May have other minor incidental cosmetic defects expected with age. Illustrated by Kaye, Graham (illustrator). YA/SERIES.

softcover. Condition: near fine. first. Scarce softcover book Tom Swift. Near-Fine copy in Wraps. Small Stain on back cover. Otherwise in great shape.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Graham Kaye (illustrator). Text is clean. Blue tweed cover. Ends of spine gently bumped. Blue decorated endpapers. Interior lists shows 9 titles. MAD # 58600-4-1.; The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures; Vol. 4; B&W Illustrations; 211 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. the book (#4 in the series) is in real good condition and the jacket is pretty good with minor corner damage.