Tom Swift On The Phantom Satellite Book Hardcover Dust Jacket 1956 Appleton II

Description: The New Tom Swift Jr. AdventuresTom Swift On The Phantom Satelliteby Victor Appleton II1956 Grosset & Dunlap Hardcover with dust jacket 5 inches by 7 1/2 inches 214 pages. Dust jacket is torn (see scans). Book has no writing, tears or highlighting. (from the dust jacket)Condtermnation and panic grip the world as a strange new moon shoots earthward. Millions of people are relieved when the weird, glowing runaway moon in the sky finally goes into orbit 50,0OO miles from earth. Tom Swift Jr., who has developed a machine which will produce artificial earth-type gravity in the airless void of space, makes plans to explore this new sateIlite. In the gigantic, atomic spaceship Titan, Tom and his associates land on the mysterious moonlet and claim the bleak but fabulously rich possession for the United States.While exploring the sateIlite to pin-point the best location for setting up the young inventor's atmosphere-making machine, Swift expedition scouts discover a spaceship belonging to a hostile nation. Claiming first right to the moon because of prior landing, the foreign scientists try every means to annihilate Tom and his group.How Tom succeeds in proving the Brungarian claim invalid, and saves his associates from being set adrift in outer space, wiIl keep the reader speIlbound to the very last page of this spine-tingling adventure.The author of these exciting stories about the son of the original Tom Swift has inherited the wonderful storytelling ability of the first Victor Appleton, whose books were read by millions of boys a generation or more ago. Please let me know if pictures do not load properly or if anything else should be added to this listing. Any questions, please ask. Please check my other items. Combine purchases and save on shipping! ( Message me before paying for a combined invoice) Thanks for looking!

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