Tom Swift Jr. And His Outpost In Space by Victor Appleton II - 1955

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1955. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Hardcover in blue "tweed" paper coveerd boards. Illustrated endpapers. 210 pp. This title listed last on rear panel of dust jacket but listed sixth of eight titles in list on verso of the half title. Fine in dust jacket with shallow flaws to the top edg of the front panel and hear edge of spine.

NY: Grosset & Dunlap (1955). First edition later printing with titles listing to 15 on preliminary page and 14 on back dj flap; blue tweed boards with illustrated endpapers and blue lettering and picture, hardcover; 210 pages; black and white illustrations; lightly edge-rubbed boards else very good clean, tight copy in edgeworn dust jacket.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1955. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Kaye, Graham. Very handsome copy of book #6 in the second Tom Swift series, which was comprised of 33 volumes written under the pseudonym Victor Appleton II. These are the blue tweed hardcover books with a plain frontispiece, internals, & endpapers by illustrator Graham Kaye. Orig. published in 1955, this is later printing, listing to Book #15 in front matter, #14 on back flap, HB#38 on back cover. In 210 pages. Condition is VG+: very clean & bright, downgraded due to mild rubbing to extremities & bumped corners. Binding straight & strong, hinges intact, but front hinge is starting to crack. Pages creamy white, with a whisper of tanning to edges, else unmarked. The unclipped DJ is VG+: exceptionally bright & clean with jut a tad of rubbing to extremities, heaviest at head of spine; nicely protected in new mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you… Read More

NY: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1955. First Edition, later printing. Wit this title listed sixth out of 16 on the titles pages. Small 8vo., pictorial blue cloth in dust jacket; 210 pages. Illustrated by Graham Kaye.. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight); bit of edgewear (tiny chips & tears) d/j.

New York, New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover. 210 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: 1: Vol. 6: KB#014981: Boards are Blue Tweed. No Dustjacket is included. Boards are lightly bumped at upper corners. Inside front cover has worn spot and copy has whited-out spots on title page and copyright page. Otherwise boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Tom's plans for his gigantic hub-and-spoke outpost of the universe calls for twelve laboratories. Solar batteries will be produced in one laboratory, another will be a celestial observatory, and another a radio broadcasting and TV station relaying programs over one third of the earth. But the project is beset from the start by a fiendish enemy, and also that weird phantom of outer space, Zero Gravity. Tom comes to grips with the problem of weightlessness by inventing a Zero chamber. Here, in order to… Read More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c. 1954]-1957. 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… Read More