Author: Daniel Warvelle Harbaugh
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312467878
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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This book features the cover art of the original 40 books Tom Swift series commencing in 1910. The Tom Swift books have been credited with laying the foundations for success of American science fiction by focusing on brilliant scientists and inventors. Tom Swift's adventures have been popular since inception in 1910: by 1914, 150,000 copies a year were being sold. As of 2009, Tom Swift books have sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775412962
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle is the tenth book in the original Tom Swift series. "Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading." "These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good." This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade".
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3861954168
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Reprint of the adventure novel originally published in 1910.
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775413063
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders is the 20th book in the original Tom Swift series. "Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading." "These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good." This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade".
Author: Howard R. Garis
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tom Swift and his Talking Pictures, or, The Greatest Invention on Record" by Howard R. Garis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Victor Appleton II
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304541290
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Author: Victor Ii Appleton
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
ISBN: 1421825058
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Tom Swift, Jr., and his friend, Bud Barclay, try to recover a missile, which was mysteriously thrown off course, containing valuable data from Jupiter.
Author: Victor Appleton (II.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Swift, Tom (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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A super submarine especially designed for deep-sea research and exploration encounters strange green bubbles that feed on manganese nodules and are capable of engulfing and destroying large objects.
Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439103690
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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TOM IS IN DEEP-SEA TROUBLE... Tom. Bud, and Yo are on the S.S. Nestor, a Swift Enterprises research vessel, to witness Mr. Swift testing his submersible, the Verne-1. Mr. Swift plans to use the Verne-1 to place a network of seismometers on the sea floor to detect underwater earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other phenomena that might generate tidal waves on the ocean's surface. But when an unexpected storm hits and the S.S. Nestor looses contact with the Verne-1, it's up to Tom to save his father.
Author: John Axe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875886367
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The exciting adventures of the fondly remembered Hardy Boys, Tom Swift and 27 other different sets of boys' series books will come vividly to life with this first time coverage of this topic. The author, John Axe, has brought together a rich treasury of book covers and information about 29 different boy's series authors and their books, from the early volumes of Edward Stratemeyer to Tom Swift and Tom Swift, Jr. In between, there are Rick Brant, Tom Slade, Roy Blakeley, Ted Scott, Andy Blake, Jerry Todd, Poppy Ott, Mark Tidd, Bronc Burnett, Chip Hilton, The Hardy Boys, Tom Quest, Ken Holt, Biff Brewster, and others. With this book many youthful memories will flood back -- climbing on the roof of the garage so you did not have to share with your younger brother or reading under the covers with a torch. Several series show each different cover. The Hardy Boys alone have 119 different 'classic series' cover designs. For each series, each different printing is identified, dated and valued.Researched and documented to identify rarities -- or to identify which book from your youth you need to locate and buy -- this book guides collectors through ALL of the different editions and printings.
