11 Ken Holt titles on rear jacket panel, 13 Rick Brant titles on front flap, 11 Tom Swift titles on rear flap. Small tears to jacket spine head and jacket spine base, one inch tear to front jacket hinge. Spine slightly cocked. 1947 Hard Cover. vi, 209 pp. Rick Brant is the central character in a series of 24 adventure and mystery novels by John Blaine, a pseudonym for authors Harold L. Goodwin (all titles) and Peter J. Harkins (co-author of the first three). The series was published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1947 and 1968, with the previously unpublished title, The Magic Talisman printed in 1990 in a limited edition as the concluding #24. In the series, teenaged Rick Brant and his ex-Marine pal, Don Scott [Scotty] live on Spindrift Island off the coast of New Jersey, where Rick's father, Hartson Brant, heads the Spindrift Foundation, a group of scientists. Rick and Scotty are involved in various adventures at home and abroad. - Wikipedia