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Tom Swift and His Jetmarine
by Appleton II, Victor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 044809102X
- ISBN 13
- 9780448091020
- Seller
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Carmarthen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low.. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1954. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 044809102X . A very good minus hardback book with NO inscriptions or other marks. Clean, tight & virtually unworn but with age browning to the page edges. Blue covers, with deep dark blue titling and picture of Tom Swift on the front. In the original unclipped dust-jacket (original price 5/-) which has a few very small 'closed' nicks near the top & bottom of spine, and some very light rubbing along top and bottom edges - negligible. Front of the d/j shows a submarine surrounded by an Octopus. The dust-jacket is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks VG. Undated, carries only the 1954 copyright date of the original US Grosset & Dunlap edition - this UK edition is probably a little later? . Slight tan offsetting to the pictorial endpapers, but o/w internally Fine. 192 pp. Illustrated with a full page b/w frontispiece and other b/w illustrations in the text by Graham Kaye. Tom Swift is the main character of five series of American juvenile science fiction and adventure novels that emphasize science, invention, and technology. See Images. ; The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M007502
- Title
- Tom Swift and His Jetmarine
- Author
- Appleton II, Victor
- Illustrator
- Graham Kaye
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 044809102X
- ISBN 13
- 9780448091020
- Publisher
- Sampson Low.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- 044809102X, Tom Swift And His Jetmarine By Victor Appleton II, Children's Sci Fi Fiction.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Sci-Fi/Fantasy;
Terms of Sale
Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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About the Seller
Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
Biblio member since 2006
Carmarthen
About Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
Retired Member of the P.B.F.A, and the WBA. In business for 42+ years to date, mainly working from home nowadays, and formerly exhibiting at Major London Book Fairs, and some Provincial ones within reach of the M4! View by Appointment ONLY Please, as I may be unavailable on the day you call. Happy to see customers but they have to be able to squeeze through the book aisles/piles! Unfortunately no wheelchair access. Currently only working part-time.
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- O/W
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