This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...The Humming-Bird was all ready for a trial flight, and Tom was glad of the chance to test it, especially with such a pretty passenger as was Miss Nestor. "Bless my shoelaces!" cried Mr. Damon. "I can see where I am going to be cut out, Tom Swift. I'll not get many more rides with you now that Miss Nestor is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...The Humming-Bird was all ready for a trial flight, and Tom was glad of the chance to test it, especially with such a pretty passenger as was Miss Nestor. "Bless my shoelaces!" cried Mr. Damon. "I can see where I am going to be cut out, Tom Swift. I'll not get many more rides with you now that Miss Nestor is taking to aeroplaning, you young rascal!" And he playfully shook his finger at Tom. "Oh, I don't expect to get enthusiastic over it," said Miss Nestor, who, now that she had taken her place in one of the small seats under the engine, appeared as if she would be glad of the chance to change her mind. But she did not. "Now, if you take me more than five feet up in the air, I'll never speak to you again, Tom Swift!" she exclaimed. "Five feet it shall be, unless you yourself ask to go higher," was the youth's reply, as he winked at Mr. Damon. Well he knew the fascination of aeroplaning, and he was almost sure of what would happen. "You can take a tape measure along, and see for yourself," he added to his fair passenger. "The barograph will hardly register such a little height." "Well, it's as high as I want to go," said the girl. "Oh!" with a scream, as Tom started the propeller. "Are we going?" "In a moment," was his reply. He took his seat beside the girl. The motor was speeded up until it sounded like the roar of the ocean surf in a storm. "Let her go!" cried Tom to Mr. Damon and Mr. Jackson, who were holding back the Hutnming-Bird. They gave her a slight shove to overcome the inertia, and the trim little craft darted across the ground at every increasing speed. Miss Nestor caught her breath with a gasp, glanced at Tom, and noted how cool he was, and then her frantic grip of the uprights slightly relaxed "We'll go up a little way in a minute!..".
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Good Used. No Jacket. Kind of a dark tan with red decorative drawings in boxes of planes, cars, bicycle, boat and Tom Swift in oval on spine and also smaller on front cover. General wear-but still antique rather than just used looking. No markings. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-10" Tall.
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Used-Good. Good hardback in decorated ochre cloth. Reprint, 1926. Lacks front free end paper; trace of label on front pastedown; small damage to spine front joint.
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Fair. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1911. Copyright 1911, this is an early reprint that lists to Great Searchlight in the publisher's advertisement at the back. About good condition in tan cloth printed in black and red, black and white frontis plate, no dustjacket. Some expected rubbing to the extremities, some shelf soil consistent with use, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, name very neatly written on front free endpaper, no other markings. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.
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12mo. iv, 207, [1] pp., plus 12 pp. publ. ads. Glossy frontisp. Publisher's gold-coloured cloth, quad cover art illustrated & decorated in red & dark green (minor shelfwear, slight bumping to corners, foot of spine, slight chipping head of spine), still VG-copy, w/ former ownership markings from 3 generations on ffep. Early printing, of No. 9 in the Tom Swift Series, listing to Photo Telephone in ads at rear of textblock.
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Very Good (small fault). No Jacket. Octavo. The ninth book in the Tom Swift series. Small, faint stain at bottom of gutter of first few pages, otherwise sound, clean and unmarked with firm hinges.
