Tom Swift and His Flying Lab

Front Cover of dust jacket of my book

I just finished this book for my evening reading (before bed). TOM SWIFT and His Flying Lab is the first book in the "new Tom Swift Jr. Adventures series. According to the back of the dust jacket Tom Swift, Jr., is "the son of the famous inventor who in his books invented so many of the wonders of today long before there were actually built.  In this new series, Tom Swift, Jr., is also an inventor who is ahead of his time. Tom invents and builds a flying lab in which he goes all over the world helping sole plots that would bring harm to the United States." In this book "he outwits a gang of uranium thieves."

Blue tweed (front) cover-my book.

Frontispiece in my copy of book #1

I bought this book recently at a used book sale for a few bucks. I wanted something light to read before bed, something that would relax me but not put me to sleep immediately and not stress me out. The book is set up like one of the old time serials where every other chapter or so, there is a cliffhanger.

This book was published in 1954 and my copy is a first edition (with dust jacket). There are 208 numbered pages and 11 illustrations by J. Graham Kaye.

Inner cover illustrations-from my copy of book.

The description on the front inside dust jacket further describes the plot of this book: "Tom must overcome the scheming of this gang (of international enemies) as well as terrific mechanical  problems to build his fabulous aircraft, which will soar straight up from the ground, fly at supersonic speeds, and carry scout planes in its own hanger.  When the Sky Queen is completed, Tom and his friend Bud Barclay take off for South America where the same enemies are seeking to gain control of a mountain of uranium."

The text promises that "each scientific detail of this fascinating story has been carefully checked....they are all plausible and some day you may see them in use."

The book ends with a plug for the next two books in the series. Unfortunately, I have the 3rd book but not the second. This will be motivation for attending more used book sales.

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Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_frontispiece
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Written Saturday 11 November 2017.