Stephen Petranek Editor (6 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: Very Good. A special issue of Discover Magazine published in October 2000. Includes many predictions of what life would be like in twenty years - in 2020. More than twenty years later it is an interesting exercise to see how many of their predictions came to pass. A publication of Disney Publishing Worldwide. Measures 8" x 10.5" with 112 pages. There is a bare spot on the cover where the prior owner has ripped off the address label. There is also a slight vertical fold visible on the front cover near the spine. Otherwise, this magazine is in excellent condition.

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.