Endpapers: Heavy paper, single color art with shading
Page Tops: Single color topstain
The binding was patterned into a tweed look for this very familiar format. The
books came with the standard full-color paper dust jacket and all the series had printed endpapers and colored page tops by this
time.
Red Tweed
Green Tweed
Turquoise Tweed
Blue Tweed
Beige Tweed
Tan Tweed
Brown Tweed
Memorable Series Books Beginning in this Format
The Stratemeyer Syndicate
The Stratemeyer Syndicate added a now very famous series, Tom Swift
Jr., to their ranks in 1954. The Tom Swift Jr. series was meant to capitalize on the success of the original Tom
Swift, and succeeded well. The series contained 33 books and lasted nearly 20 years.
Wilfred McCormick
The Bronc Burnett series, another popular and long-running series,
started in 1949.
Carey Rockwell
Perhaps the only Grosset & Dunlap children's series set in the future, Tom
Corbett, started it's publication in 1952. The series was written by Carey Rockwell, and one of the leading rocket experts of the
time, Willy Ley, was the technical advisor. Tom Corbett was one of the famous 1950s Sci-Fi TV and radio shows and also appeared
in a newspaper strip, as well as having comic books and numerous other products.
