Popular Science Magazine 1929 & Earlier
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Condition Grading
(NOTE: The 1896-99 issues below, while named
“Popular Science”, are not affiliated with the Popular Science magazine as we
know it. The publication ran from 1866 to 1902 – and was also known as “Popular
Science News”).
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Date of Issue: |
Cover/Issue |
Condition: |
Price |
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1896 Issues |
Jan. (missing covers), Sept. (split covers) |
Fair |
$7.50 ea. |
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1898 Issue |
Jan. |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
1899 Issues |
May (cover tear), June, Aug. |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
1899 Issues |
July (back cover missing), Nov. (split covers), Dec. (front cover missing) |
Fair |
$7.50 ea. |
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Date of Issue: |
Cover/Issue |
Condition: |
Price |
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July, 1897 |
“Appleton’s Popular Science |
Good, cover edge chipped |
$25.00 |
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January, 1916 |
Maud, The Motor Mule |
Good, spine wear |
$45.00 |
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February, 1916 |
Air-Driven Sled |
Good, gouge top left corner |
$45.00 |
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March, 1916 |
The Motor-Duck |
Good, edge Tears |
$45.00 |
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April, 1916 |
Motorcycle vs. Ostrich |
Good, insect damage |
$45.00 |
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July, 1916 |
Pitching To a Machine |
Good, edge tears |
$45.00 |
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November, 1916 |
Making Dummies That Dance and Play |
Good, spine wear |
$45.00 |
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April, 1917 |
The Bullet-Proof Brigade |
G/VG |
$50.00 |
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June, 1917 |
Torpedoed But Saved by Floating Deck |
Good |
$45.00 |
|
February, 1918 |
Soothing Our Soldiers Electrically |
Good |
$45.00 |
|
March, 1918 |
Firing at Towed Target (in the air) |
Good |
$45.00 |
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May, 1918 |
Diving Through Burning Enemy Balloon |
Good |
$45.00 |
|
October, 1918 |
Riding the “Air Elephants” (Balloon) |
Good, chipped corner |
$25.00 |
|
March, 1919 |
Balloons That Can’t Catch Fire. WWI content |
Good, small tear, tape neatly on spine |
$35.00 |
|
March, 1920 |
Elephantine Diving Armor. |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
April, 1920 |
Fumigating A Sick Tree |
Not Available |
NA |
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May, 1920 |
The Truth About The Ouija Board |
Not Available |
NA |
|
July, 1920 |
Cup Sailing Becomes a Science |
Not Available |
NA |
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August, 1920 |
Flivverette – The Littlest Electric Automobile |
Not Available |
NA |
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September, 1920 |
Architectural Model |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
October, 1920 |
Inventing Perpetual Motion by Norman Rockwell |
Not Available |
NA |
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January, 1921 |
Electric Crane (Hercules). Telephotograph |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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February, 1921 |
Electric Log Cutter by Walter Beach Humphrey |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
March, 1921 |
Steam-Driven Monorail Train |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
April, 1921 |
Air-Blowing Metal Soderer by Norman Rockwell |
G/VG |
$50.00 |
|
May, 1921 |
Sled Brick-Hauler by Walter Beach Humphrey |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
July, 1921 |
Measured for Your Suit by Camera |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
August, 1921 |
Factory-Built House of Concrete Delivered for $1500 – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
September, 1921 |
Cabinful of Airplane Passengers Saved by A Parachute – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
October, 1921 |
Babe Ruth painted by B. L. Kidder – Home Run Secrets Solved by Science |
Not Available |
NA |
|
November, 1921 |
World series on Wireless. Japan’s New Naval Monsters |
Good |
$30.00 |
|
December, 1921 |
Aero Sled. – 2 copies |
Good |
$30.00 |
|
February, 1922 |
Glider Coasting. Radio, Inventions We Need the Most |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
March, 1922 |
When Al Jolsen Sings by Wireless Beside Ten Thousand Sick Beds. Gorilla-Faced Caveman Had Brain Like Ours |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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April, 1922 |
The Gift of a Box of Tools |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good, spine fray |
$30.00 |
|
May, 1922 |
The Next-Door Wireless Expert. Fiftieth Anniversary Issue, Edison on Future Marvels of Radio and science |
G/VG |
$45.00 |
|
June, 1922 |
Radio on a Vacation. Secrets of Auto Camping (to our New National Parks) |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
July, 1922 |
Eddie Rickenbacker Predicts Huge Passenger Airplane |
G/VG, lightly soiled |
$35.00 |
|
August, 1922 |
Sixty Miles an Hour on New Water Toboggan. Can Divers Salvage Lusitania’s Treasure? |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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September, 1922 |
“Whirling Leaf” Aircraft. Inventor of Crystal Detector, Mountains of Shale to Give Up Oil |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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October, 1922 |
Down the Demons of Waste and Double the Life of Your Car. Heat Your Home with 30 Percent Less Coal |
G/VG, lightly soiled |
$35.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good, tape on spine |
$30.00 |
|
November, 1922 |
Jack Binns’ Ten Radio Commandments for Success. “Sugar Cane Lumber” |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
December, 1922 |
Making a Sled by Frederic Stanley. Why Our Homes Breed Sickness in Winter |
Good |
$30.00 |
|
January, 1923 |
Monster New Airship. Arctic Pioneers |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
February, 1923 |
Amazing Beauty of the First Successful Color Movies (Underwater Diving cover). Coue |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
March, 1923 |
Leviathan – Most Palatial Ocean Liner cover |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
April, 1923 |
Amazing Motorcycle Built to Speed at 400 Miles per Hour. |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
June, 1923 |
Movie “Mayflower” Rides Mechanical Waves, Our Monkey Ancestry |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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July, 1923 |
Wonders of Science Harnessed for Circus Thrills. The Ideal Swimming Stroke |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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August, 1923 |
Steam-Powered Airplane. Bryan on Evolution |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
November, 1923 |
Torpedo Cars Above Streets on Monorail |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
|
February, 1924 |
Radical New Steps in Aviation. Science Nears Tomb of First Man |
G/VG |
$30.00 |
|
April, 1924 |
Summer to Winter in 40 Minutes. A Rocket to the Moon |
G/VG |
$30.00 |
|
May, 1924 |
Wonders of the Honey Bee. 100 New Ideas for the Home and Shop |
G/VG |
$30.00 |
|
June, 1924 |
Man Fishing at Camp with Portable Radio Set – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$20.00 |
|
July, 1924 |
How to Fix a Balky Electric Fan |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
August, 1924 |
Father, Children and Radio Set Troubles |
Not Available |
NA |
|
September, 1924 |
Spray-Painting House. U. S. Army’s New Remedy for Colds |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
October, 1924 |
“Politics in the Air” – Two Men Listening to Radio |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$20.00 |
|
February, 1925 |
A Sailing Ship without Sails |
Good |
$20.00 |
|
April, 1925 |
Amazing Plane Its Own Parachute |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
May, 1925 |
Gigantic Engines Foreshadow New Era of Transportation |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
July, 1925 |
What’s Wrong in this Picture? Don’t Make Fun of Your Wife’s Ideas |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
August, 1925 |
Flying Sailboat. The Wreck of TC-6, Perils Lurk in the Summer Sun |
Not Available |
NA |
|
September, 1925 |
Giant Plane Designed to Cross Atlantic in a Day. Poisons That Lurk in “Bootleg Booze” |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
October, 1925 |
Strange New Gas Masks to Protect Animals in Warfare. The Story of Houdini |
Not Available |
NA |
|
November, 1925 |
Skyscraper Steel Worker. Houdini – Unmasking Spirit Fakers |
Not Available |
NA |
|
January, 1926 |
Winged Toboggan by Remington Schuyler |
Good, insect damage |
$17.50 |
|
February, 1926 |
How Fast Can Your Mind Work? – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
|
Same |
Fair/Good, taped spine |
$10.00 |
|
April, 1926 |
Taking Chances Is The Movie News Man’s Job |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
May, 1926 |
You Can Make This Ship Model by Remington Schuyler |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
June, 1926 |
Naval Wonders of the Next War |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
July, 1926 |
Skimming The Atlantic at 75 Miles Per Hour by Remington Schuyler |
Good, soiled |
$20.00 |
|
August, 1926 |
Race Car Driver by Remington Schuyler |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
November, 1926 |
How Inventors Are Making Airplanes Safer by Remington Schuler, Narrow Escapes of Famous Explorers |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
December, 1926 |
Plane Shaped Like a Sea Gull, Gene Tunney Tells How He Beat Dempsey |
G/VG |
$30.00 |
|
January, 1927 |
Pilot Coming Down in Parachute |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
Same |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
|
February, 1927 |
Downhill Skier by Remington Schuyler |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
March, 1927 |
Cover by Frederico LeBrun |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
April, 1927 |
Viking Ship Model |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
May, 1927 |
Skyscraper Riveter by Herbert Paus – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
June, 1927 |
Telephone Repair Man by Herbert Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
August, 1927 |
U. S. Air Mail Plane by Herbert Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
September, 1927 |
Shipbuilders by Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
October, 1927 |
Big Band with Microphone by Paus – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
November, 1927 |
Parachutist by Herbert Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
December, 1927 |
“Santa Maria” Model Ship by Herbert Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good, tape on spine |
$17.50 |
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January, 1928 |
Observatory Telescope by Paus |
Not Available |
NA |
|
February, 1928 |
Crane Lifting Train Engine by Paus – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
Same |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
|
April, 1928 |
Aviator Photographer by Paus |
Good, some edge chipping |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good, edge tears |
$17.50 |
|
May, 1928 |
Aircraft Carrier & Planes by Paus – 3 copies |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
June, 1928 |
Hoist at Train Yard by Paus – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
July, 1928 |
Nighttime Airplane Landing |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
August, 1928 |
Speed Motorboat Racers by Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
September, 1928 |
Pilot and Globe by Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
November, 1928 |
Railroad Signalman by Paus |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
December, 1928 |
Airplane Mechanic by Paus |
Not Available |
NA |
|
January, 1929 |
Wilbur & Orville Wright: Inventors of the Airplane |
Not Available |
NA |
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February, 1929 |
Building a Skyscraper by Paus |
Not Available |
NA |
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March, 1929 |
Parachutist by Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
April, 1929 |
Bridge Surveyors by Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
Same |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
|
June, 1929 |
Speed Boat Racers by Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
July, 1929 |
Aviators by Herbert Paus – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
September, 1929 |
Air Mail Delivery by Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
October, 1929 |
The Zeppelin Grows Up by Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
November, 1929 |
Pilot & Engineer by Paus |
Not Available |
NA |
|
December, 1929 |
Skyscraper Welder by Paus – 2 copies |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good, spine starting to fray |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good, tape on spine |
$17.50 |