Author: APPLETON II, VICTOR
Title: Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster : The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures #5: Blue Tweed Boards - the New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures Series
Description: New York, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Graham Kaye. 210 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: 1: Vol. 5: KB#014976: Bookjacket/dustjacket now protected by a New Brodart Mylar Cover. Boards are Blue Tweed. Front of Dustjacket has picture of Tom Swift and friend running across ice with lava spraying in background. Dustjacket has several repaired short cuts along edges, is price-clipped, and boards are lightly worn. Copy also has front flyleaf neatly removed. Otherwise boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "When Tom chooses the South Pole as the spot to hunt for molten iron with his earth blaster, his closest friends raise their eyebrows. Even Chow Winkler, the expedition's genial Texan cook, says, 'Brand my thermopile, if the young inventor ain't plumb loco!' First Tom has to convince the skeptics about the value of his earth blaster. Preliminary tests prove that it is one of the greatest inventions the world has ever known.": B&W Illustrations. Good in Good Dust Jacket .

Keywords: Children Science Fiction Fiction: : Science Fiction: : Adventure