A Descriptive Catalog of FALCON BOOKS FOR BOYS

THE MERCER BOYS’ CRUISE IN THE LASSIE

by Capwell Wyckoff

When Don and Jim Mercer and their buddy Terry Mackson set out in their sloop, Lassie, for a visit to Mystery Island, they were in search of adventure and fun. But they quickly found they were getting more than they bargained for—real danger, a skirmish with marine bandits, and a fight for their lives. This is a thrilling adventure story of three modern boys—with action and excitement on every page.

THE MERCER BOYS AT WOODCREST

by Capwell Wyckoff

The mystery of Clanhammer Hall, at Woodcrest Military Academy, interested Don and Jim Mercer and their friend Terry Mackson from the moment of their arrival at Woodcrest. But their curiosity about the old, empty building faded into the back of their minds as they became involved in the mysterious disappearance of their headmaster, Colonel Morrell, whom they had never seen. With initiative and ingenuity the Mercer boys, aided by Cadet Vench, did a little detective work and uncovered a fantastic story of crime.

THE MERCER BOYS’ MYSTERY CASE

by Capwell Wyckoff

When Cadets Don and Jim Mercer and their friend Terry Mackson were ordered by Colonel Morrell of Woodcrest Military Academy to gather together all the school trophies, they were able to find all except one—the cup awarded to the class of 1933. What had happened to the cup was a mystery the boys were determined to solve. And little by little Don and Jim uncovered a strange story and unraveled a mystery that had puzzled school authorities for years. The Mercer boys uphold the honor of Woodcrest against a conspiracy of silence and dishonor.

THE MERCER BOYS ON A TREASURE HUNT

by Capwell Wyckoff

Don and Jim Mercer were prepared to spend a dull vacation at home when Professor Scott invited them to Lower California and a search for Spanish treasure. But their adventure was not all fun, for Don, Jim, and their friend Terry Mackson soon found themselves involved with a band of ruthless men determined to salvage the treasure for themselves and to stop at nothing to do it. Don and Jim fought for their lives in a series of startling adventures which make this story of buried treasure an absorbing and exciting tale.

THE MERCER BOYS WITH THE COAST GUARD

by Capwell Wyckoff

When floods forced Woodcrest Military Academy to close, Don and Jim Mercer found themselves facing a dull two months at home. That was why they eagerly accepted the chance to visit a coast guard station.

Don and Jim were anxious to participate in the thrilling rescues off Daggerpoint Rock and in the difficult beach patrols. But they didn’t bargain for a mystery which led them from one thrilling adventure to another until they finally solved it.

The Mercer Boys with the Coast Guard is a fast-paced, exciting story every boy will enjoy.

CALL TO ADVENTURE

edited by Robert Spiers Benjamin

Here is adventure of every kind! Fishing for the broad-bill swordfish in Catalina waters, an airplane crash in the Andalusian desert, a trip around Cape Horn, a shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, a walrus hunt, an encounter with cannibals, an attack by a bear from the ice floes of Greenland to the matted jungles of the South Sea Islands, these men of adventure sail and hunt and fight with a courage and abandon that will transport every reader to another, more exciting world.

THE SPIRIT OF THE BORDER—by Zane Grey

Zane Grey’s famous novel of the old West when Indian raids were an everyday affair and the guns of the scouts smoked in a perpetual trail of vengeance against the savages. Joe Downs went West, eager to join the scouts in their exciting life. His brother Jim followed him, to convert the Indians. They found themselves up against the aroused Indians, led by the renegades Simon and Jim Girty, in a war to the death.

A popular condensation of a thrilling story based on historic fact, by the best of all Western writers.

THE LAST TRAIL—by Zane Grey

The Last Trail is the thrilling story of Helen Sheppard, beautiful newcomer to the Wilderness, and Jonathan Zane, one of the last of the bordermen. Bordermen did not fall in love: theirs was the job of tracking down renegade white men and enemy Indians so that the settlers might lead safe and peaceful lives. But when Helen was kidnapped by the renegades, Jonathan discovered how much he loved her; and he and his friend Wetzel set out on a trail of vengeance and destruction.

For the adventure and thrill of frontier life, The Last Trail is hard to equal in the literature of the West. Zane Grey has told his story with mastery and realism, and readers will love this exciting story from the pen of a master storyteller.

ON THE FORTY-YARD LINE—by Jack Wright

Jim Davis, the most popular man on the Grayson campus, was determined to make the football team. His roommates Bob Clark and Chub Garver were already football man and cheerleader respectively. It was easy for Jim to become Coach Kelso’s star passer, but it wasn’t so easy to stay on the team. First, there was the secret between Professor Burke and Jim; second, there was Weldy Gray, who was out to ruin Jim at any cost.

On the Forty-Yard Line is a story filled with the excitement of football, and the courage and loyalty of three pals who fight with equal abandon for their school and for each other.

THE STRIKE-OUT KING—by Julian de Vries

From the moment Larry Murdock is chosen as regular pitcher for the Carson College nine, to the thrilling seconds of the big game with Northern State when Larry battles against almost overwhelming odds, The Strike-Out King is an action-packed story of the diamond that will appeal to the sports-loving instinct of every American boy. An absorbing book no reader will be able to put aside until the last word of the last page has been read.

THE WINNING BASKET—by Duane Yarnell

Honest, eager-eyed Ben Mason was in seventh heaven when he was admitted to Clearview Academy. He had been there only a day when they discovered he was not from a rich, influential family—and Ben was out. How Ben got back into Clearview, and how he fought the antagonism of the student body and the conspiracies of his enemy Jack Lassiter make an absorbing story filled with drama. Every boy will root for Ben as he fights on the basketball court for the school that didn’t want him.

THROUGH FOREST AND STREAM: ADVENTURE IN THE MOUNTAINS—by Duane Yarnell

When Ted and Pudge went to the All-American camp, it was for a summer of good fun. Then they discovered that they were really entered in a contest—a contest involving $50,000 for the college of the boy who won it. Ted just had to win that prize, both to keep baseball at College Tech and to insure his father’s job as baseball coach. How he engaged in a deadly fight with wolves and was entombed in an old mine shaft with a ferocious bear are only two of the many adventures he had.

Ted Moran wins out in a breathless story of heroism and resourcefulness that will thrill its readers.

OVER THE HURDLES—by Emmett Maum

Any boy who has thrilled to the shot of the starting gun and the crunch of spiked shoes on cinders will enjoy the story of Larry Craven, for whom the cinder track was the path of fame from Maywood College to the Olympic games. But all was not smooth going for Larry, for he had many obstacles to surmount and he had enemies who plotted against him. How he won out over his difficulties makes an exciting and vivid sports story.

BOYS’ BOOK OF SEA BATTLES

by Chelsea Curtis Fraser

Truth can be more exciting than fiction, as these fourteen stirring sea battles from the pages of history prove. From the days of Sir Francis Drake, when life on the sea was a constant battle between the Spanish and the English, to the Battle of Leyte, sea fights have determined the destiny of men and nations. In these pages you will find Commodore John Paul Jones, Lord Nelson, Oliver Perry, Admiral David Farragut, and Dewey, together with the dramatic stories of the Constitution and the Guerrière, the Monitor and the Merrimac, and the sea battles of World Wars I and II.

BOYS’ BOOK OF FAMOUS SOLDIERS

by J. Walker McSpadden

War transforms ordinary men into the heroes of the battlefield, and the story of their exploits and brilliant strategy is more exciting than any tale of fiction. The Boys’ Book of Famous Soldiers brings together the stories of thirteen immortals of history: Washington, Grant, Lee, Jackson, Napoleon, Wellington, Foch and Joffre, Pershing, Marshall, Eisenhower, and MacArthur—and Rodger Young, the only enlisted man on this roster of generals. These biographies reveal little-known facts about these men, and the stories behind their courageous deeds and difficult decisions.

BOYS’ BOOK OF FAMOUS FLIERS

by Captain J. J. Grayson

From the moment Bob Martin and Hal Gregg knew that Captain Bill, flier and storyteller extraordinary, was coming to visit the Martins, they anticipated an exciting summer. And exciting it was—for they learned to fly and even soloed. But even more fascinating were the tales Captain Bill and the boys told about the men of adventure in aviation—the Wrights, Lindbergh, Admiral Byrd, James Doolittle, and others.

Captain Grayson has told the exciting true stories of men who made aviation history. Boys’ Book of Famous Fliers is the stirring, dramatic story of aviation itself, as embodied in the figures of America’s most famous fliers.