Stephen L Petranek Editor (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Flat with a tight binding, sharp edges and corners, no markings.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good, although overall much better; see scans and description. New York: The Buena Vista Publishing Group, Inc., 2000. The December, 2000 issue of Discover magazine, Volume 21, Number 12 Quarto, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 104 pp. Good, due to stain and crinkle at front cover (scan), and more modest crinkle at first few pages; otherwise, without flaw. See all scans. Tipped-in subscription offers still in place. See images of the contents pages for detail on what's inside, but some of what's featured is: Does Time Exist ?; Nazca Geoglyphs Mystery; Weird Algae as Pollution Cure; Koalas; Future Food; Voice Recognition/Synthesis - much of that being still quite current as of this listing, and will become in any case science history. More, of course. A scarce genre collectible. LPR21.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine. See description and scans. New York: The Buena Vista Publishing Group, Inc., 1999. The March, 1999 issue of Discover magazine, Volume 20, Number 3. Quarto, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 136 pp. Near Fine - very Near Fine. A tiny upper right corner tweak (see front cover scan), and really nothing else to point to. Not as briskly tight as brand new, but not far from it. Tipped-in and laid-in subscription offers still in place. A high-grade example. See images of the contents pages for detail on what's inside, but some of that is: Cures from the Ocean; Human Sacrifice and Cannibalism in the Andes; Saving a Rain Forest; Physics of Traffic Jams; Stephen Hawking; Jupiter's Amazing Moons; Vampires; Underwater Volcanoes. A scarce genre collectible. LPR14.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Leesburg, VA: Weider History Group, 2006. The November, 2006 issue of Aviation History, Volume 17, Number 2. Quarto, photo-illustrated stapled wraps, 74 pp. Fine; faint crease at top right (see scan), else without flaw. Feature articles: From Anzio's Beaches to the Burma Jungle; Knight Flier (Jack Knight); Air Force Maverick (John Boyd); Shenandoah's Last Flight. Departments: Letters, Enduring Heritage, People and Planes, Letter from Aviation History, Historic Modeling, Reviews, Art of Flight, Aerial Oddities, Airware, Events, Legacy of Flight. - lpr2.…

Wraps. 96, wraps, Iillusrations (many in color) This issue has several stories on Spies in Washington. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ink marks on front cover. Crossword puzzle filled in. presumed First Edition, First Printing this issue.