Tom Swift Rocket Ship New by Victor Appleton (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Graham Kaye (illustrator). 12 mo, hardback #3 in original series. Famous books about a young scientist whose amazing inventions promise to be the great achievements of the future. Covers lightly worn at edges and spine extremities else interior near fine, clean and unmarked in blue pictorial boards. Vintage book for boys.208 pp. Lists titles to #19 on back cover.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Good in acceptable jacket. The jacket has water damage and there is a light stain from the water damage on the spine of the book. There is not any mottling or mold on the book at all. Just staining on the jacket and spine. Jacket also has chipping and some tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Kaye, Graham (illustrator). Vol. #3 in the second Tom Swift series, which was comprised of 33 volumes written under the pseudonym Victor Appleton II. Originally published in1954, this book is part of the second Picture Cover series from the 1960s, in the original Blue spine edition, not the later Gold spine reprints (for a copy of that book, please see our listing #019830 ). With decorative paper over boards, in 208 pages with a plain frontispiece, endpapers, & internal drawings by illustrator Graham Kaye. It is a later printing, listing to book #18 in both front matter & on back cover. Condition is Good: generally very clean, binding straight & strong, hinges intact, pages creamy white with very mild tanning/dust dulling to outside edges, but unmarked; top stain is faded & their is a slight drip down fore edge from blue dye. Moderate-heavy rubbing to extremities & slight spine fade. No DJ, as issued.Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! All orders processed before 2 pm weekdays (PST) ship that same day; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day!

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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Kaye, Graham (illustrator). Vol. #3 in the second Tom Swift series, which was comprised of 33 volumes written under the pseudonym Victor Appleton II. Originally published in1954, this book is part of the second Picture Cover series from the 1960s, in the later Gold spine edition (for the earlier Blue spine edition, see our listing #019844). With decorative paper over boards, in 208 pages with a plain frontispiece, endpapers, & internal drawings by illustrator Graham Kaye. It is a later printing, listing to book #20 in both front matter & on back cover. Condition is Good+: generally very clean, binding straight & strong, hinges intact, but front one starting to split. Pages creamy white with very mild tanning/dust dulling to outside edges; top stain is a bit spotted. NO writing/underlining/highlighting; not ex-lib. Flaws: moderate rubbing to extremities, heaviest at both ends of spine & all corners. N0 DJ, as issued.Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! All orders processed before 2 pm weekdays (PST) ship that same day; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day!

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Graham Kaye (illustrator). Reprint. Reprint - jacket lists through His Outpost in Space, prelim list through His Diving Seacopter, rear jacket flap advertises His Flying Lab. Jacket lightly rubbed. 1954 Hard Cover. 208 pp. 8vo. Blue tweed boards, frontispiece and endpapers by Graham Kaye. The third book in the New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures series, a spinoff of the original Tom Swift juvenile series that began in the early 20th century.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Kaye, Graham (illustrator). First Edition Later Printing. Very handsome copy of book #3 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 1954, this is later printing, listing to Book #15 in front matter & back flap, HB# 39 on back cover. 208 pages. Condition is VG+: very clean & bright, downgraded due to mild rubbing to extremities & bumped corners. Binding straight & strong, hinges intact. Pages creamy white, with a whisper of tanning to edges, else unmarked. The unclipped DJ is Good+, with minor-moderate edgewear, including chipping at both ends of spine & corners; nicely protected in new mylar cover Free!

HB. VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Kaye, Graham (illustrator). Reprint. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book Club.

Hardback. No Dustjacket. Bound In Pictorial Covers with Orange spine. Ex-Library Copy With The Usual Faults, Card Pocket, Ink Stamps, Etc. Tight Sound Copy With Average Wear.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Graham Kaye (illustrator). [1958] 208 pp. Original blue tweed covers, very bright and clean. Modest rubbing to spine ends. Blue and white endpapers. Front hinge starting at half-title page. DJ lightly soiled w/ mild edge wear. DJ rear flap advertises "The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories," and list to title "The Ghost at Skeleton Rock." DJ rear panel advertises this series and list 12 titles. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents nice.

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Kaye, Graham (illustrator). 1st Printing. A solid spine with edge rubbings. Size: 8 Vo.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Graham Kaye (illustrator). British Edition. U.K. edition. Book is in very good (pages aged, short gift inscription on first title page) condition with a very good (price clipped, chipping at corners) dustjacket protected in a Brodart wrapper. An Attractive Copy! Please feel free to ask me for pictures or more information, Thanks.

Hardcover. Graham Kaye (illustrator). Later. Except for previous owners name neatly inscribed on the front endpaper, a clean, tight copy. There are 208 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Grosset & Dunlap. 1954-1960. 7 books. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Later printing. Hydrodome matches last title on the DJ and on the list of books internally. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Tom Swift Jr. Is the central character in a series of 33 science fiction adventure novels for male adolescents, following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift ("Senior") novels. The series was titled The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures. Unlike the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys titles that were also products of the prolific Stratemeyer Syndicate, the original Tom Swift stories were not rewritten in the 1950s to modernize them. It was decided that the protagonist of the new series would be the son of the earlier Tom Swift and his wife, Mary Nestor Swift; the original hero continued as a series regular, as did his pal Ned Newton. The covers were created by illustrator J. Graham Kaye. Covers in the later half of the series were mostly by Charles Brey. A total of 33 volumes were eventually published. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

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 new science fiction series, drawing on three PhD scientific consultants, sparking the imaginations and efforts of Steve Wozniak of Apple Computer, Jack Cover who invented the Taser, and resonating with Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.