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Kidnapped by an international arms dealer who hopes to turn a sophisticated multi-purpose vehicle into a high-tech weapon, Tom attempts to foil the plot by stealing the vehicle back and piloting it through a dangerous barrage of jets and rockets

8vo. pp 183. Issued without dust wrapper. ISBN: 0899500242 About fine. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket.

With the help of his latest invention, a device that can atomize objects, send them great distances, and reassemble the atoms, Tom Swift, Jr., and his father locate a frozen mastodon and transport it to the United States.

Hoping to feed the world's starving people, Tom begins using growth hormones on fish, but when hideous giant fish lay siege to the shore at Laguna Peqena beach, many believe that Tom is to blame. Original.

Tom and his friends find themselves up against a mysterious foe and risk their lives in a race against time to prevent nuclear destruction

Spine and Back Board are Orange, with a Pictorial Front Cover showing a picture of Tom Swift looking at a large screen showing a craft holding a large meteor. "'When weird masked raiders attack a United States spaceport, Tom's plans for his latest space exploration project are jeopardized. The project would launch astronauts on a newly sighted planetoid for an epic voyage around the sun. First, Tom must prove that his latest invention, the Duratherm Wing, can bring reentering spacecraft safely down to earth. A fiery mishap on the test flight is only the beginning of Tom's troubles. Fake evidence results in the young scientist-inventor being accused of masterminding the spaceport raid. In the meantime, another small planet has been mysteriously captured by earth's gravity. On an expedition to the strange planetoid, Tom discovers a fantastic prize. But grim developments follow. The planetoid is sinking into the atmosphere and threatens the continent of North America with the most terrible catastrophe in history! How Tom meets this challenge with high courage and scientific know-how, and how he outwits his insidious enemies, will bring cheers from his worldwide legion of fans."

When his jet-powered cycle and her flame-reflective suit fall into the hands of Captain Invisible, Tom and his sister, Sandra, must race against time to retrieve them. Original.

Using his ultra-powerful new telescope, Tom Swift sights a strange granite cube circling the Earth and sets out to investigate--a quest that will take him to the moon and back again. Original.

The third volume of the new Tom Swift Jr. series takes the brilliant young inventor into outer space in a rocket ship of his own design. On Fearing Island just off the Atlantic Coast, Tom's space craft project attracts the attention of the spies and agents of a foreign scientist whose plan is to rule the world and space. Tom Swift's advantage over his competitors is that he has perfected a rocket fuel which can carry his ship into and out of orbital flight. But it takes all of Tom and Bud's ingenuity to outwit the ruthless efforts of the foreign scientist and his desperate gang of henchmen. The flight through space makes thrilling reading--the more exciting because you know the details of the flight are scientifically accurate. Readers of Tom Swift and His Flying Lab, the first book of this new series, will recall the message that came in the shape of a meteorlike object falling into the Swift plane enclosure. In this story another message from the same mysterious source proves very valuable to Tom as he is flying through space.

Despite attempts to sabotage his newly-invented fusion drive spacecraft, a young scientist investigates the sinister, eminent head of the space colony who is hiding serious flaws in his own new craft.

Tom Swift, a brilliant young inventor-adventurer, must use his new skyboard to battle attack robots, laser weaponry, and an evil mastermind when his best friend is abducted by a mad scientific genius, the Black Dragon

Tom Swift is the central character in five series of books, first appearing in 1910, totaling more than 100 volumes, of American juvenile science fiction and adventure novels that emphasize science, invention and technology. Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground, is Volume 11 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap. Tom receives a message from his missionary friend whom he saved from captivity in Africa during the adventures of the preceding volume. The message describes a wonderful underground city, filled with treasures of gold, somewhere deep in the heart of Mexico. Not one to turn down adventure, Tom accepts the challenge to find the lost city. Around this time, Andy Foger and his father had lost their fortunes and are off after Tom's trail in order to steal the treasures from him. In order to make the trip possible, Tom must remodel his previous airship- a hot air balloon with an enclosed cabin.

Tom Swift develops a new starship drive which enables him to cross over into another universe, ruled by Molvaar, a military dictator

The third volume of the Tom Swift classic young adult science fiction series collects four more novels: Tom Swift and His Sky Racer, Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle, Tom Swift in the City of Gold, and Tom Swift and His Air Glider.

When his latest invention goes awry--setting off a reversal of the evolutionary process--Tom Swift must defuse the DNA disaster before he sends all living things back to their Stone Age forms

In the first hyper-drive spacecraft, Tom, Ben, and Anita try to make contact with an alien race that built a probe.

An alien probe found wrecked on one of Jupiter's moons and containing insane "intelligence" is stole from a laboratory before its secret of stardrive is obtained.

Tom Swift rockets off to investigate trouble aboard Ark Two, an ecological research station, but is almost killed when a mysterious ship attacks

Tom Swift, Jr. -- working with the Navy -- tries to recover a crashed Jupiter probe at the bottom of the ocean. Tom's recovery efforts become a race against time, as the Brungarians move in to steal the probe and its scientific data. A thrilling Tom Swift, Jr. adventure!

This volume assembles the first four Tom Swift adventure books in one volume: Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle Tom Swift and His Motor Boat Tom Swift and His Airship Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat