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Tom Swift and His Giant Magnet; or, Bringing Up the Lost Submarine
by Victor Appleton
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Vintage reprint edition in green cloth with black print on front and spine. Good book in like dust jacket. Dust jacket has edge wear, with small chips at spine; now in new removable protective cover. Jacket lists 9 of the 10 Tom Swift titles Whitman reprinted. Plain end papers, with prior owner's name in pencil. Pages are clean and unmarked, on aging paper. Whitman hard cover with dust jacket, 1937, Whitman #2169, reprint of 1932 Grosset and Dunlap first edition with different art; 216 pages; 12mo (7.5" x 5"). Tom Swift and His Giant Magnet; or, Bringing Up the Lost Submarine (Tom Swift #35), by Howard R. Garis, writing as Victor Appleton. This is the last Tom Swift novel by the original author, who wrote the first 35 novels in the series. The remaining 5 books in the series were written by others. Tom invents a giant electromagnet to help process scrap iron, but it comes in handy when the Navy loses an experimental submarine.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 05102407tomswift35cgr
- Title
- Tom Swift and His Giant Magnet; or, Bringing Up the Lost Submarine
- Author
- Victor Appleton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Whitman
- Place of Publication
- Racine, WI
- Date Published
- 1937
- Pages
- 216
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction / Fantasy;
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Bujoldfan
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Salem, Oregon
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