Tom Swift and His Motor Boat
Appleton, Victor (Howard R. Garis)
Sold by Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since June 20, 2007
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSold by Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since June 20, 2007
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSecond in the long-running original Tom Swift series, copyright 1910 and listing only the five books of the "starter set" to copyright page, but actually 1929, as revealed by the fact that both the jacket front flap and the publisher's ads to rear of book list 32 Swifts through "His House on Wheels" (1929.) Back matter lists 10 Radio Boys through "In Gold Valley" (1927), but jacket rear flap offers a fuller list of 12 Radio Boys through "On the Pacific" (1929) and jacket rear panel lists nine Don Sturdys through our old favorite, "In Lion Land" (also 1929.) Book "very good" with a slight (1/4-inch, 6 mm) spine lean; jacket "good," still colorful but with a chip missing from top of spine and with a 1/4-inch hole where spine covering meets front panel. Full list of G&D titles to reverse of jacket, in green ink. 212 pp, followed by 8 pp. publisher's ads. Here reduced from $92.
Seller Inventory # 008693
While we mark down our unsold books on a regular basis, our "BEST PRICE" on any given day is the price posted. We purposely avoid selling on the "Make me an offer" auction sites, where every book is "acceptable" and paperback reprints of "The Great Gatsby" bearing ISBNs and barcodes are listed as "published 1925." And we DECLINE to jack up our prices by 20 percent so we can offer every supplicant a supposed 10 or 15 percent "discount," thus turning anyone who simply pays our asking price into a ...
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