Tom Swift and His Giant Magnet by Appleton, Victor - 1932

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company. Used-Acceptable/Used-Acceptable. (1932). ........ Hardcover w/DJ. 12mo., 216 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, chipped, tears, cover edges rubbed, pages heavily toned, inside hinges cracked .

Racine: Whitman, 1932. Reprint . Orange Cloth. Poor/Fair. Binding loose, hinges split; soiled and worn. Jacket quite worn at corners and edges, titles and artwork intact. This is a reading or loaner copy only

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. List to title on the copyright and rear publisher's pages. Orange cloth cover with black stamp title. Stains at the spine and front hinge mostly. Light edge wear. Illustrated end papers. Hole punches at the bottom of the title page. Light stain on title page. Clean text. No dust jacket. . Fair. Hardcover. 1932.

Tan cloth illustrated cover, slightly soiled. Back cover has a lengthwise crease. Binding tight. Edges bumped & pages tanned but unmarked. Frontispiece by Nat Falk.

Racine: Whitman, 1932. Green Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Minimal wear at spine ends, soiling (pencil marks?) in outside front hinge, otherwise very clean and unmarked, pages yellowed. Jacket shows light edgewear/creasing, small tears at top of spine; bright and colorful. Whitman #2169

whitman 2169, 1932 hardcover. very good orange binding with faint damp marks, in a very good or better dust jacket , corner and spine end chips, some edge bumping with small creases

whitman 2169, 1932 hardcover. near fine reddish binding in a near fine dust jacket , bumped spine ends with tiny chips

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. First. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Nat Falk. First edition in brown cloth with first issue dust jacket (with Don Sturdy's Ocean Bottom as the last title on the back panel). Dust jacket has Swift titles 1-35 (Magnet) on front flap and Sturdy titles 1 -11 (Ocean) on rear panel. Publisher ad at rear has Swift titles 1- 35 ending in Giant Magnet. Title list on copyright page lists 35 Tom Swift titles and 11 Don Sturdy titles. Very good book in fair dust jacket. Jacket has numerous chips and closed tears, including missing the top .25 inch at the top of the spine panel and the bottom 1 inch of the spine panel; now in new removable protective cover. The white on the spine and rear panel has darkened with age; and a prior owner has made pencil ticks on some of the titles on the Tom Swift list on the front flap. Light brown cloth covered boards, with black print on spine and front, and red and black Tom Swift "quad" type illustration, with Tom in four modes of… Read More

grosset & dunlap, 1932 first edition . almost near fine orange binding with small stain at the bottom of the spine, in a good jacket with about a 2 inch piece out of the bottom left corner, badly faded spine, some clear tape repairs, book lists to this title