tom swift giant robot de appleton victor (63 résultats)

paperback. Etat : Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages are clean and bright with no markings. Binding is fine. Minor rubbing to the edges and corners of the blue coverboards. No DJ.

Etat : GOOD. Later printing. Illustrated by Graham Kaye. Lists through #17 in this series. In blue tweed covers, blue and white illustrated endpapers. 211 pp. Good only condition (some sunning to the spine and edges of the covers, corners bumped, spine slant, no dj.).

Hard Cover. Etat : good+. Graham Kaye (illustrateur). blue tweed cover with navy lettering & decoration; blue & white il'd endpages; 211pp; b/w frontis & ils; list of titles on front endpage goes to this; slight cracking to paper over front hinge; cover is rubbed with some wear to extrems. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. There is light corner wear.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Illustrated by Kaye, Graham (illustrateur). Hardcover with worn, but colorful, fair condition dust jacket. Book would be vg save for a worn off corner at top of spine. Previous owner initials and a few spots, otherwise clean. DJ now in mylar cover. ; New Tom Swift Jr Adventures; Vol. 4; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 211 pages.

Hardcover w/DJ. Etat : Good/Good. Black & White Illustrations, Frontispeice (illustrateur). New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Good/Good. 1969. . Hardcover w/DJ. 12mo., 211pp. .

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good-. Kaye, Graham (illustrateur). First Edition Later Printing. Vol.#4 in the second Tom Swift series, which was comprised of 33 volumes written under the pseudonym Victor Appleton II. Orig. published in 1954 in the original blue tweed cloth-covered hardcover format wrap-around pictorial DJs, this is a later printing, listing to TS#13 in front matter & on back DJ flap & to HB#38 on back DJ cover.(Please see our listing #019791 for a true First Edition, first printing, of this title). In 211 pages with a plain frontispiece & blue/white endpapers by illustrator Graham Kaye. Book condition is VG: very clean, binding straight & strong, hinges intact, pages creamy white with very mild tanning to outer edges & dust dulling to outside edges, else unmarked. Rubbing to extremities & bumped corners. The unclipped DJ is only Good-/Fair, with major paper loss to spine, light creasing & minor edgewear all around. Bright & colorful; nicely protected in new mylar cover Free! 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!

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Graham Kaye (illustrateur). dj w/lite wear, uncliped price, in mylar; blue illustrated end papers; 211 clean, unmarked pages; list to RTace to the Moon on dj back panel.

Good plus or better, light general wear, corners lightly bumped. Cloth Worn, lightly soiled, edgetorn jacket with sm chips. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. the book (#4 in the series) is in real good condition and the jacket is pretty good with minor corner damage.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.55.

Cloth. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Illustrated by Kaye, Graham (illustrateur). 211 pp. , early reprint. Blue tweed boards, listing inside to Tom Swift and the Spectromarine Selector indicating a publication date of 1960 (original 1954). PIctorial endpapers in blue and white, depicting Tom at the window of his flying lab. Frontispiece and several full- or partial-page internal illustrations on plain paper. Jacket is in new Brodart, with some large chips missing to the spine, significant creasing and chipping to front panel. Rear panel has advert for the Hardy Brothers, with a listing to The Mystery of the Chinese Junk. Spine cocked, edge wear to boards, some foxing to leading edge. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 211 pages; "When the Swift Enterprises undertakes to set up an atomic laboratory for the U. S. Government, Tom Jr. Goes to work on a giant robot that can function by remote control when exposed to deadly atomic and hydrogen rays. The invention intrigues the interest of a band of clever bank robbers who think they can use the giant robot in their work. " How they interfere with Tom's invention by means of flocks of mechanical crows; how a mad scientist joins the robber gang and almost succeeds in destroying the atomic laboratory from within its well-guarded walls; how, one by one, the clever criminals are outwitted and captured by Tom and his friend Bud; how the giant robot is completed in time to perform his part in the saving of the laboratory are all told in this exciting yarn. " Age Level: Grades 4-10.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Graham Kaye (illustrateur). Blue tweed boards and blue & white illustrated endpapers. Lists to Tom Swift and His Cosmic Astronauts. This is Number 4 in the series. B&w illustrations. Covers have fading, wear, and browning around edges, corner and spine end bumps, and a bit of spine lean. The pages are generally very clean but there are a few marks here and there, and a dog ear or two. Some soiling on the textblock edge otherwise pages are quite clean with no writing or printing. Binding is super. Number 20 in this popular series. A nice sturdy little book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good to Very Good. Kaye, Graham (illustrateur). 211 pages. Dust jacket lightly scuffed at corners. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Etat : Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Dust jacket chipped with some text loss. Owner's name on front free endpage and rear pastedown. Pages toned. (science fiction, fantasy, adventure).

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. # 4 in the series-lists # 6 Outpost in Space. Rear dustjacket panel is advertisement for Junior Adventure Club. Rear flap lists to Hardy Boys Hooded Hawk Mystery. The text is clean with no markings. The binding is sound. The dustjacket shows light edgewear with a small tear at the base of the spinel and is protected in a mylar cover.

hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Pictorial Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Graham Kaye (illustrateur). Early Printing. In blue "tweed" boards, owner's name stamp inside on the blue and white pictorial endpapers, otherwise like new under a barely worn jacket. A crisp, clean copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Cover shows a little edgewear. Interior very clean. Some black and white illustrations by Graham Kaye. Pictures on request.

Paperback. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures, Book 4; 7.4 X 5.0 X 1.0 inches; 211 pages.

Hard Cover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Reprint. Reprint - rear jacket panel advertises Hardy Boys Junior Adventurer's Club, prelim list through His Outpost in Space, rear jacket flap lists through The Hooded Hawk Mystery (Hardy Boys). Stain along top edge, jacket price clipped, jacket lightly rubbed. 1958 Hard Cover. 211 pp. Blue tweed boards, frontispiece and endpapers by Graham Kaye. "When the Swift Enterprises undertakes to set up an atomic laboratory for the U.S. Government, Tom Jr. goes to work on a giant robot that can function by remote control when exposed to deadly atomic and hydrogen rays."  "Tom Swift Jr. is the protagonist of a series of juvenile adventure novels aimed at male adolescents, following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift ('Senior') novels. The series was entitled 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. For the Tom Swift Jr. series the books were outlined mostly by Harriet (Stratemeyer) Adams, head of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, attributed to the pseudonymous Victor Appleton II, and published in hardcover by Grosset & Dunlap. Most of the books were written by James Duncan Lawrence, who had an interest in science and technology and was faithful to the canon of the previous Tom Swift series. Title #7, Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter, has several references to the first series including a visit with Mrs. Baggert, who was Tom Sr.'s housekeeper, and other volumes feature a rocket named after the old family retainer Eradicate "Rad" Sampson, a radiation-detector (the Damonscope) named after Tom Sr.'s friend Mr. Damon, and a planetoid named in honor of Tom Swift Sr.'s father Barton. As in the original series, the basic locale is the quaint town of Shopton, New York, on Lake Carlopa. James Lawrence once said that Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar was one of his favorite Tom Swift Jr. stories. Typical story elements include Tom's loyal and quip-prone friend Bud Barclay, his comic-relief cook 'Chow' Winkler, spies (typically from Soviet stand-ins Brungaria or Kranjovia), use of a wonder-material called Tomasite that did anything the story needed, the amazingly versatile force-ray repelatron, and atomic-powered everything, including the aforesaid atomicar. The first invention of the series (and the one making the most frequent appearances in subsequent stories), the Flying Lab (named Sky Queen), was a giant VTOL research airplane the size of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Mention must be made of the role of the book covers in vivifying memories of the books. Mostly by ex-Saturday Evening Post illustrator (J.) Graham Kaye, the covers burst with color and excitement and the sheer romance of invention. Covers in the later half of the series, mostly by Charles Brey, were less detailed and reflected Brey's more modernistic style. The Tom Swift Jr. stories had stronger science-fiction elements than the earlier series, particularly in the later volumes. One subplot which, beginning on the first page of the first volume, ran the length of the series, is Tom's communication, via mathematical 'space symbols,' with beings from 'Planet X.' This mystery is never completely resolved despite the beings sending an artificial 'energy brain' to occupy a robot body built by Tom in book #17. A total of 33 volumes were eventually published. The stories offered science that was more intriguing than accurate. Yet, the characters and titles are well-remembered and lovingly regarded, and a number of scientists, researchers, and engineers (including Apple Computer's Steve Wozniak) profess to having been set on their courses by Tom Swift Jr. The 'Tom Swifties' style of dialogue writing played no role in the actual series.

Hardcover. Etat : Used Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. Kaye, Graham (illustrateur). First Edition First Printing. Vol.#4 in the second Tom Swift series, which was comprised of 33 volumes written under the pseudonym Victor Appleton II. One of the original blue tweed cloth-covered books with wrap-around pictorial DJs, this is a true FIRST EDITION, first printing, listing to itself in front matter & on back DJ cover, with self summary on front DJ flap & summary of TS#3 on rear flap. In 211 pages with a plain frontispiece & blue/white endpapers by illustrator Graham Kaye. Book condition is Near Fine: exceptionally clean & bright, binding straight & strong, hinges intact, pages creamy white with very mild dust dulling to outside edges, but unmarked. The unclipped DJ is VG, with only mild edgewear, the worst of which is chipping to both ends of spine, worst at top; nicely protected in new mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good +. Etat de la jaquette : Good. The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures 4. 211 p. 20 cm. Grey cloth in mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket. Jacket has chips and tears to edge and some soiling to rear panel and rear flap. Book itself has shelf wear as well as a blue mark on top edge occasionally affecting upper margins.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Graham Kaye (illustrateur). [1960] 212 pp. Original blue tweed covers, very bright and clean. Modest rubbing to spine ends. Covers a bit cocked. Blue and white endpapers. DJ lightly soiled w/ modest edge wear. DJ rear flap advertises this series and list to title "Tom Swift and His Spectromarine Selector." DJ rear panel advertises "Hardy Boys Mysteries," and list to title "The Mystery of the Chinese Junk." Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents very nice.

hardcover. Etat : Very Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Early printing; Good in Good dust jacket; dust jacket has chipping to extremities, larger open tear to back panel; no marking to text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Hard Cover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Sunned spine Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.