Tom Swift and His Wireless Message / Or The Castaways of Earthquake Island

Appleton, Victor (Howard R. Garis), Author of "Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle," etc.

Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1929

About this Item

Glossy frontispiece. This is the sixth Tom Swift adventure, originally copyright 1911. "Very-good" book in a good dust jacket missing bottom inch-and-a-half of jacket spine. This book lists 31 Tom Swift titles (through "His Talking Pictures" (1928) to jacket front flap, but 32 through "His House on Wheels" (1929) to internal ads at rear. We count 11 "Radio Boys" through "Aiding the Snowbound" (1928) to jacket rear flap; jacket rear panel and internal ads both list seven Don Sturdys through "Among the Gorillas" (1927.) We'll presume a publication date of 1929. Unfortunately, it seems to have proven logistically impossible to haul along the always amusing "colored man" Eradicate Sampson and his recalcitrant mule to Earthquake Island, but Howard R. Garis (1873-1962) -- of Uncle Wiggily fame and here writing under the Appleton house name of the Stratemeyer Syndicate -- does manage to give him and the trusty "Boomerang" a brief introductory comic turn, delivering a telegram. Alas, no sign of Koku, the superstitious Samoan. 211 pp. Reduced from $37.

Seller Inventory # 011456

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tom Swift and His Wireless Message / Or The Castaways of Earthquake Island
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York
• Publication Date: 1929
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrations by H. Richard Boehm
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Electrical Engineering