Tom Swift Rocket Ship by Appleton Victor, First Edition (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Graham Kaye (illustrator). 1st Edition. VG/none, used, color illustrated cloth binding, illustrated end papers, 208pp. Interior clean, no marks, binding tight. Slight rubbing to exterior, corners square and not worn. There is a small spot of finger soiling on the page edges, near the top.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Very Good hardcover with Pictorial Cover.

HARDCOVER. Condition: GOOD++. NO JACKET. USA: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1954. GOOD++/NO JACKET. USA: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1954. GOOD++/NO JACKET. Grosset and Dunlap, USA, 1954, hardcover, Good++ book, no jacket, probable 1st edition, not remaindered, bookclub or library, unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing. Lists three titles in book and on rear flap. Nice tight copy, but page edge soil, shalloow chipping head of jacket spine, one short closed tear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with a Sunday School prize label on the front endpaper, in a bright price clipped dustjacket which is chipped and creased at the edges. 192 pages, illustrations in the text, illustrated endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship by Victor Appleton II. We have recently acquired a large collection of vintage Tom Swift children's science fiction books. See other listings for alternative titles. Published by Sampson Low, Great Britain. 1st UK edition, 1954. Hardback with textured blue printed boards. Printed No. 3 to dustjacket spine. Good copy - text pages with only minor age discoloration to extremities, as is common for similar UK hardbacks of this period. Minor shelfwear to book. Previous owner's name and address to endpaper.  Dustjacket has nicks and tears, and some losses to lower edges. It is price clipped to inner flap,  but is intact and covered in removable protective plastic. Illustrated by Graham Kaye. 192pp. Dimensions: approximately 196mm high x 135mm wide x 26mm deep. Weight: Approximately 352g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Presumed First. Presumed first edition, hardcover in blue boards, lists to this title on book and dustjacket, 9595 price, a touch of soiling to page edges, top page edges have a few small moisture markings, slight bow to boards, light rubbing and edgewear, light bumps to spine ends, otherwise clean and tight, a VG copy in like dustajcket that has a few chips and closed tears to edges, light rubbing and edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: About Very Good. 1st Edition. Bound in blue tweed. Verso of half title, rear jacket flap and cover list to itself. Jacket with tiny tears at top front and front fold, nicks at spine extremities and a bit of wrinkling on the back bottom.Lihgt pencil ownership on front flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This VG quality first edition book was published in 1954 by Grosset & Dunlap. It is 7-5/8" tall and has 208 numbered pages of text; it is the blue tweed cover of format #1, as per Mattson & Davis's bibliography (Grosset & Dunlap; 7-5/8"; textured composition binding, medium blue with dark blue lettering; plain front except for dark blue illustration of Tom Swift, Jr.'s head in upper right area of front cover, superimposed over a blueprint; pictorial end pages in shades of blue on white, depicting Tom at the window of his flying lab; frontis +8 to +11 full or partial page illustration, all on plain paper. White coated paper dust jacket, pictorial, in colors, different scene for each title; illustration covers front & spine panels; spine contains series logo of Tom's head superimposed over a blueprint with black rectangle below containing "The New Tom Swift Adventures" and the title number enclosed in a white or gray diamond). The book is square, very clean, free of edge dings with the lower front corner lightly bumped; the head and heel of the spine are barely bumped and have slight color loss. The bottom edges and corners have a small amount of wear. Except for an ink stamped name/address on the FFEP and a lightly toned area of the FFEP where some paper must have been left and a 1/2" tear at the bottom of the blank page preceding the half-title page, the interior is completely free of writing, stray marks, stains of any sort and page damage of any type. Both hinges are very strong and not damaged. The frontis and other illustrations are intact. The paper is quite flexible. The book lists only the first 3 Swift Jr. titles on the back of the half-title page; there is no other list in the book. This VG- quality jacket is very clean and the colors on the front panel and spine are not damaged or faded. It has tiny chips at the top front corner and the head of the spine, With a larger chip at the lower front corner; there is a 1/2" tear at the top of the front panel and one on the bottom of the rear panel. There is no tape on this jacket. The rear flap and rear panel both list only the first 3 titles in this series.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Graham Kaye (illustrator). 1st Edition. Later Printing. The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures are listed through number 13 (Tom Swift and His Space Solartron) on the dust jacket, and through number 15 (Tom Swift and His Spectromarine Selector) in the volume. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket (now in Mylar) are very lightly shelf-worn, with a few small red marks near the listing of some of the Tom Swift books in the volume and on the dust jacket, and are otherwise in perfect, pristine condition; unread, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures Series. Vol. 3. B&W drawings. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (x), 208 pp.

Hardcover. First Edition; Early Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Few small open tears throughout. Chipping at spine crown/heel.

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.