Tom Swift In The Caves Of Nuclear Fire : The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures #8: Blue Tweed Boards - The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures Series by Appleton, Victor - 1956

New York, New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover. 014978: Bookjacket/dustjacket now protected by a New Brodart Mylar Cover. Boards are Blue Tweed. Front of Dustjacket has picture of Tom Swift and friend looking out of a large ball being lowered into a flaming cave. Lists to 'Space Solartron' on inside page and to 'Space Solartron' on back flap of Dustjacket. Dustjacket has some small repaired short cuts along edges. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Tom, that strange gas is fantastic--disintegrates everything it touches! What do you think it is?' Fascinated by the amazing report from a pilot who crash-landed in the African jungle, Tom Swift Jr.'s eyes glow with curiosity as he replies: 'Sounds like antiprotons rampaging. Such a phenomenon is unknown on earth. This may be the greatest discovery of the century. It could revolutionize the whole science of atomic energy. Let's investigate that taboo mountain. When their atomic drill inexplicably is sucked into a forbidding peak. A series of startling events threaten the Swift expedition. How Tom, with his new invention the Terrasphere, conquers a heretofore unknown, violent quirk of nature brings this breath-taking story to a spectacular finish.": Vol. 8: B&W Illustrations: 5 x 7.5 in.: 214 pages .