About Tom Swift, Jr. - Boys’ series of 33 well-written, imaginative science adventure books published from 1954 through 1971. These followed the earlier 1910-4140-volume Tom Swift series, but are NOT revisions/condensations of the earlier series. They are entirely new plots with new characters, but feature some of the family and friends of the earlier series. So the admired and groundbreaking new inventions of the Jr. series are from a much later era, inspired by the space flight advances then in the works, and in the news of the day. #19 in the series. Grosset and Dunlap. Copyright 1962. Rear cover lists to #18 Electronic Hydrolung (1961), the prior title in the series. This is a first edition, and reputedly the favorite of author James Duncan Lawrence (writing under the house pseudonym of Appleton II). Very good picture cover book but with sticker removal scar at the title. Black/white space lab endpapers. No writing/markings, no tracking, minimal corner bumping. Very minor page block lines. In this one, Tom develops many ingenious devices. The best one is the car of your dreams. It can fly, and needs no conventional fuel - it's powered by repelatrons and an atomic power capsule Tom has cooked up. This capsule has a super-plastic durastress hull which prevents the capsule from exploding due to internal pressure! TSA19