TOM SWIFTAND HIS GIANT CANNON OR THE LONGEST SHOTS ON RECORD
by Appleton, Victor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good+
- Seller
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Yarmouth, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Grosset & Dunlap, 1913. Grosset & Dunlap, 1913, First Edition, 8vo, 216 pages, glossy frontis, plain paper endpages. Number 16 in the Tom Swift series. Inscription on front endpage and dated 1913. Inside flap of jacket lists 16 Tom Swift. Sixteen Tom Swift & 5 Moving Picture Boys listed on verso of Title page. Fifteen Tom Swift listed in rear ads, 4 pages of Ads. Eleven Hoatio Alger & 4 Sea Treasure Series listed on inside rear flap. Seventeen Best Books for Boys on back of jacket. Tan hardcover with the quad design on front of book in red with black lettering. Oval on front with red border. Jacket has some general edgewear with some light chipping at extremities. Lettering on spine of jacket faded, and barely visible. Early quad jacket that matches book cover in red and green colors. Book very good+ and jacket in good+ condition. First printing in scarce quad jacket, 40c price listed on jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Cape Cod Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GP011123okBC4S6
- Title
- TOM SWIFTAND HIS GIANT CANNON OR THE LONGEST SHOTS ON RECORD
- Author
- Appleton, Victor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Date Published
- 1913
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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