Adventure Series Volumes. Grosset & Dunlap

Updated August 25, 2026

This lot features an assortment of multiple vintage juvenile adventure hardcover volumes, primarily centered on the Tom Swift series by Victor Appleton. Included are several volumes of the original series published by Grosset & Dunlap intan pictorial cloth bindings, characterized by red and black stamped illustrations of a motorcycle, motor car, biplane, and speedboat. The titles in this format include Among the Fire Fighters, And His Airline Express, Circling the Globe,And His Big Dirigible, And His House on Wheels, And His Chest of Secrets, And His Talking Pictures, And His Electric Locomotive, And His Sky Train, and And His Great Oil Gusher. The group also includes Tom Swift and His Flying Boat inorange cloth (Grosset & Dunlap) and the later series title Tom Swift Jr. and His Flying Lab by Victor Appleton II (Grosset & Dunlap) in blue cloth. A Whitman Publishing Co. edition of Tom Swift and His Ocean Airport is present in greenThe collection is in overall fair to good condition, showing significant wear consistent with heavy use and age. Most volumes exhibit frayed cloth at the spine ends, bumped corners, and varying degrees of scuffing and soiling to the covers.

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