Break out yer Bolender...

Wouldn't happen to have an extra copy of Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts
Laying around, been looking for a copy of that for years
Alaska Larry BRBR

That must be one of the newer ones that I don't even have on my list. I am the
proud owner of the following Tom Swift books:
#7 Diamond Makers
#8 Caves of Ice
#11 City of Gold
#17 Photo-Telephone (Cingular?)
#19 Big Tunnel
#20 Land of Wonders
#23 Undersea Search
#26 Flying Boat
#31 Talking Pictures (yeah, these are old!)
#32 House on Wheels (Winnebago?)
#36 Television Detector

Thats as far as my collection goes, no mention of Galaxy Ghosts up till that
point.

On 08 Feb 2005 02:50:41 GMT, (Numismatist) is
alleged to have written:
Wouldn't happen to have an extra copy of Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts
Laying around, been looking for a copy of that for years
Alaska Larry BRBR

That must be one of the newer ones that I don't even have on my list. I am the
proud owner of the following Tom Swift books:
#7 Diamond Makers
#8 Caves of Ice
#11 City of Gold
#17 Photo-Telephone (Cingular?)
#19 Big Tunnel
#20 Land of Wonders
#23 Undersea Search
#26 Flying Boat
#31 Talking Pictures (yeah, these are old!)
#32 House on Wheels (Winnebago?)
#36 Television Detector

Thats as far as my collection goes, no mention of Galaxy Ghosts up till that
point.

Those are the Tom Swift , Sr books. I never owned one of those myself,
they were the predcessor to the Tom Swift Jr books. Galaxy Ghosts is
part of the Jr series. I bought those in the late 1960's with my own
money for $1-$1.50 each.

Bruce
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Those are the Tom Swift , Sr books. I never owned one of those myself,
they were the predcessor to the Tom Swift Jr books. Galaxy Ghosts is
part of the Jr series. I bought those in the late 1960's with my own
money for $1-$1.50 each.

Bruce
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EAC 3606


Thanks for the clarification Bruce. I am easily confused!

Bruce If you have that one just let me know how much you want I have the
whole series in Firsts except Ghost in fact I have the whole collection
in both in dust covers and picture books all three sets right up to
ghost. They have a copy at our public Library but just can't make myself
check it out and not return it G

Larry

Bruce H (BoxTurtle) wrote:

I got one of those. Heck, I've got most of the series. What am I
offered?

Bruce

Numismatist wrote:
Wouldn't happen to have an extra copy of Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts
Laying around, been looking for a copy of that for years
Alaska Larry BRBR

That must be one of the newer ones that I don't even have on my list. I am the
proud owner of the following Tom Swift books:
#7 Diamond Makers
#8 Caves of Ice
#11 City of Gold
#17 Photo-Telephone (Cingular?)
#19 Big Tunnel
#20 Land of Wonders
#23 Undersea Search
#26 Flying Boat
#31 Talking Pictures (yeah, these are old!)
#32 House on Wheels (Winnebago?)
#36 Television Detector

Thats as far as my collection goes, no mention of Galaxy Ghosts up till that
point.
those are tom swift SR the one i am looking for is the last of the tom
swift JR series I have all the sr ones their easy to come by
Alaska Larry

I wish I had kept all of mine I have spent enough to purchase at least 6
ms Double Eagles just to keep this coin related and still don't have
the key of the series
Alaska Larry


Bruce H (BoxTurtle) wrote:

Those are the Tom Swift , Sr books. I never owned one of those myself,
they were the predcessor to the Tom Swift Jr books. Galaxy Ghosts is
part of the Jr series. I bought those in the late 1960's with my own
money for $1-$1.50 each.

Bruce

Ah, now there you go. When you don't like the way the argument is going, by
all means ignore all the facts presented and go on the offensive. Boy, I
just can't wait until you attack kids for putting Honus Wagner tobacco cards
in their bicycle spokes!

Now, I'm not claiming that series books collecting has anywhere near the
following that numismatics has - but I dare say that my book (Hardy and
Hardy Investigations) has certainly outsold Bolender - even accounting for
Bolender's 40 year head start.

Funny you should mention Mr. Bowers as well. I've had several emails and
regular ol' mails over the years with him about how die states and such are
similar to plate wear when determining emission sequences. Ya see, Grosset
and Dunlap never put printing dates on the books they published, so
researchers going in 50 or more years later need to look at plate wear and
broken letters - combined with wholly inadequate information from the
printers and binders - to determine whether Book A or Book B was issued
earlier.

One more thing that's kind of interesting, and even on topic. In my book I
put a number of Dennis Miller-esque parenthetical statements about this and
that. One of them was how Sheldon's Penny Whimsy was an inspiration for my
book. Never thought anyone would know what I was talking about. But over the
years, I've had discussions with three series book collectors that bought
H&HI who were, like me, EACers.

To veer a bit off-topic but on-thread here... As far as Galaxy Ghosts goes,
there were 5,000 of 'em printed (I've got the actual printing date around
here somewhere, but not right at my fingertips.) There's still enough of
them in existence - heck, one appears on ebay darn near every week - to go
'round. They go for around $300-$400 in nice shape (to steer back on topic -
about what you'd pay for a *genuine* Fr-02 bust dollar.)

Sorry about the top-posting for those of you who're against it. I cut my
teeth back on the ARPANET back in the late 1970's. Believe me, when you're
looking at mail memos via a 300 baud acoustic coupler, there was only so
long you'd wait to reply to a message. Guess I just got used to it..

Tony Carpentieri

"James Higby" heezerbumfrool[at]hotmail[dot]com wrote in message
...

"mary carpentieri" wrote in message
...
Now, see, son, looks like you opened your mouth too soon there and
stuffed your foot right in. The value of, say, an original first edition
of Hardy Boys Volume 11 in VG exceeds the value of an average bust dollar
in VG by *almost an order of magnitude*.
In fact, looking at ebay completed auctions for bust dollars shows only
one example (3952622479, 1800 AU55+ with a rim bump, which sold for
$5,300) that even comes close to the last ebay selling price of the above
mentioned book ($7,600.) Heck, even that book with a fair dust jacket
sold for over $5,000 on ebay in late 2001.

With all due respect, Mom, you may have missed the fact that your little
boy was being his usual sarcastic self (wonder where he picked that up?).
Most kids my age have girlie mags hidden under their bedsprings, but
unbeknownst to you I have a copy of The United States Early Silver Dollars
1794-1803 by M. H. Bolender that I have been reading by flashlight after
everybody else is asleep. After two years of reading and re-reading the
text and studying the pictures, I have memorized, I think, all the
pertinent data, and could attribute any bust dollar that came my way
(IIRC, my mentor, Mr. Bowers, had accomplished this same feat by the time
he was my age). But this auction threw me. I tired and tried and tried
but my eleven-year-old brain just couldn't match the auction picture to
any of the 1794 varieties (actually there is only one). So in my posting
I was just trying to see if any of the more experienced nummism-, er,
numesmet-, er, coin collectors here on rcc could help me out.

As for the Hardy Boys books, Mom, I have read all those and the ones like
I saw in the sale I sold to my friend Rodge a couple months ago for coin
money. Say, could I have an increase in my allowance, I'd really like to
bid on that bust dollar auction, and times have been pretty tough on the
old paper route lately.

Your loving son,
Jimmy

I have Tom Swift and His G-Force Inverter, it has a label which
indicates that it was a Sunday School prize in 1970-71, an unusual book
to be given by a Sunday School.

As a small sideline collection I look out for children's sci-fi books of
the 1950's and 60's but they must have a space ship illustration on the
front cover before I'll buy it. Billy


Alaska Larry wrote:

Wouldn't happen to have an extra copy of Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts
Laying around, been looking for a copy of that for years
Alaska Larry

I much prefer Tom Swift but the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew are cool too.
None can hold a candle to Sgt Rock comics however :-)

Dale

"mary carpentieri" wrote in message
...
Ah, now there you go. When you don't like the way the argument is going,
by all means ignore all the facts presented and go on the offensive. Boy,
I just can't wait until you attack kids for putting Honus Wagner tobacco
cards in their bicycle spokes!

You are quite correct, I don't like the way the argument is going, since the
original topic had to do with the lack of correspondence of an online
auction scan to the illustration of the 1794 dollar in Bolender, in a
reserve auction opening at five thousand dollars. I welcome your input
relative to this topic, and invite you to offer it publicly here in the
pages of rcc.

James

James Higby cranked out a few words that said:
...and see if ya can find this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...6732 450&rd=1

Boy, howdy! I know next to nothing about these early examples. But my
first look at that thing made he think "Fake! Phony! Bogus!" And at that
moment my faithful, tried and true "rip off alarm" began to blink rapidly!

Larry
'what will it take to weed out this kind?'