airship de appleton victor author tom swift (2 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Illustrations by H. Rudolph Menel (illustrateur). "Very-good" book (third in the series, copyright 1910) in a good dust jacket with large chips to sun-browned spine. This book lists 27 Tom Swift titles (through "His Great Oil Gusher") both to jacket front flap and to ad pages at rear -- and also seven "Radio Boys" to rear flap, through "With the Iceberg Patrol" (1924.) Copyright page lists only the "starter set" of five Tom Swifts, but that was obviously retained for many years. Jacket rear panel also lists eight "Railroad" titles through "Ralph and the Missing Mail Pouch" (also 1924), which should be enough to clinch a date of issue. (You can of course always buy from some seller who lists every copy of this title by the copyright date "1910," if you prefer.) Howard R. Garis (1873-1962), of Uncle Wiggily fame and here writing under the Appleton house name of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, retains for comic relief here the unforgettable (and far from "politically correct") Eradicate Sampson and his stubborn mule, Boomerang. 216 pp. followed by 5 pp. publisher's ads, also including an advertisement for 15 installments of the "Moving Picture Boys." Reduced from $102.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrations by H. Rudolph Mencl (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Third in the series, copyright 1910, and bearing a period gift inscription ("to Vera from Maura") dated Oct. 14th, 1910 in pencil to the blank FFE. The quad-design front board in black and orange is also in the first (1910) style -- the 106 little circles that form the oval around the title & author name are blank (same color as the tan boards), not "colored in." Only the five titles of the TS "starter set" showing to copyright page (though of course that persisted for years), but that page also states "Other volumes in preparation . . . Price, per volume, 40 cents postpaid." Glossy frontispiece by Mencl. No problems with hinges, book will close its own text block, so we'll grade it "very good" despite some ink doodles to FFE and the fact the boards themselves are moderately soiled and have suffered a few dings. NO dust jacket. 216 pp. followed by an ad for all five titles of the Tom Swift series (billed as "A NEW series, certain to attract attention") -- again at 40 Cents per Volume, and then three further pp. of ads, for two volumes of Howard Garis' "Dick Hamilton" series (through "Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days," 1910, but not "Dick Hamilton's Steam Yacht," 1911); for 14 Rover Boys (through "At College," 1910, but not "Down East," 1911), and for the three titles to date of Arthur Winfield's "Putnam Hall" series (through "Putnam Hall Champions," 1908, but not "Putnam Hall Rebellion," 1909. nor "Putnam Hall Encampment," 1910.) Howard R. Garis (1873-1962), of Uncle Wiggily fame and here writing under the Appleton house name of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, retains for comic relief here the unforgettable (and far from "politically correct") Eradicate Sampson and his stubborn mule, Boomerang. Reduced from $180.