Tom Swift and His War Tank (First Edition)
by Appleton, Victor
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1918. A true FIRST EDITION with the title "Tom Swift and His War Tank" last on the list of books in the Tom Swift Series. Full yellow cloth with dark green and yellow design on the front cover and the spine, heavily soiled, chipped at the top & bottom of the spine with some fraying of the cloth. Pages slightly age toned with some thumb smudging. Binding is weak with webbing visible between the frontispiece and the title page. A READING COPY at best. Tom Swift and His War Tank, Or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam, is Volume 21 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap. When the United States joins in The Great War, it seems that everyone has war fever. A military base close to Shopton is training soldiers in the art of trench warfare, while pilots are learning aerial combat. Ned Newton has quit his job to sell liberty bonds full-time. Many of the young men have enlisted, or even hoping for the draft. Everyone seems to be doing their bit, except for Tom Swift, which raises many concerns that Tom is a slacker. Tom does not let his country down; the reason he appears to be idle is that he has secretly been developing a new tank for use in combat. The project is so secret that Tom does not even let his close friends know, which causes the concerns being raised about Tom's patriotism. Even though the development is in secret, that does not stop German nationals from trying to steal his tank. Tanks are a new wartime technology, and the British army has deployed them for use on the western front. Tom's tank is bigger, and able to travel at twice the speed of current models, with a max of 12 miles per hour. At the expense of limited firepower with four unspecified machine guns, the tank has heavier armor plating than the British tanks. Tom further refines the tank with an innovative built-in bridging mechanism, which will allow the tank to roll over wider trenches than the existing models. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.
Synopsis
Tom Swift and His War Tank, Or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam, is Volume 21 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap.
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- Bookseller
- Ziern-Hanon Galleries (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008685
- Title
- Tom Swift and His War Tank (First Edition)
- Author
- Appleton, Victor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Grosset and Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1918
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