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(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 |
|
1896 Issues |
Jan. (missing covers), Sept. (split covers) |
Fair |
$7.50 ea. |
|
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 |
Appletons Popular Science |
Good, cover edge chipped |
$25.00 |
|
October, 1918 |
Riding the Air Elephants (Balloon) |
Good, chipped corner |
$25.00 |
|
March, 1919 |
Balloons That Cant Catch Fire. WWI content |
Good, small tear, tape neatly on spine |
$35.00 |
|
March, 1920 |
Elephantine Diving Armor. |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
|
April, 1920 |
Fumigating A Sick Tree |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
|
May, 1920 |
The Truth About The Ouija Board |
G/VG, light soiling |
$40.00 |
|
July, 1920 |
Cup Sailing Becomes a Science |
Good |
$35.00 |
|
August, 1920 |
Flivverette The Littlest Electric Automobile |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
|
September, 1920 |
Architectural Model |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
|
October, 1920 |
Inventing Perpetual Motion by Norman Rockwell |
G/VG |
$75.00 |
|
January, 1921 |
Electric Crane (Hercules). Telephotograph |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
|
February, 1921 |
Electric Log Cutter by Walter Beach Humphrey |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
|
March, 1921 |
Steam-Driven Monorail Train |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
|
April, 1921 |
Air-Blowing Metal Soderer by Norman Rockwell |
G/VG |
$75.00 |
|
May, 1921 |
Sled Brick-Hauler by Walter Beach Humphrey |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
|
July, 1921 |
Measured for Your Suit by Camera |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
|
August, 1921 |
Factory-Built House of Concrete Delivered for $1500 |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
|
September, 1921 |
Cabinful of Airplane Passengers Saved by A Parachute |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
|
October, 1921 |
Babe Ruth painted by B. L. Kidder Home Run Secrets Solved by Science |
Good, soiled |
$75.00 |
|
November, 1921 |
World series on Wireless. Japans New Naval Monsters |
Good |
$35.00 |
|
December, 1921 |
Aero Sled. |
Good |
$35.00 |
|
February, 1922 |
Glider Coasting. Radio, Inventions We Need the Most |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
|
March, 1922 |
When Al Jolsen Sings by Wireless Beside Ten Thousand Sick Beds. Gorilla-Faced Caveman Had Brain Like Ours |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
|
April, 1922 |
The Gift of a Box of Tools |
G/VG |
$40.00 |
|
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 |
$40.00 |
|
July, 1922 |
Eddie Rickenbacker Predicts Huge Passenger Airplane |
G/VG, lightly soiled |
$40.00 |
|
March, 1923 |
Leviathan Most Palatial Ocean Liner cover |
Good, missing back cover |
$15.00 |
|
June, 1924 |
Man Fishing at Camp with Portable Radio Set |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$20.00 |
|
July, 1924 |
How to Fix a Balky Electric Fan |
Not Available |
NA |
|
August, 1924 |
Father, Children and Radio Set Troubles |
Not Available |
NA |
|
October, 1924 |
Politics in the Air Two Men Listening to Radio |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
April, 1925 |
Amazing Plane Its Own Parachute |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
May, 1925 |
Gigantic Engines Foreshadow New Era of Transportation |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
September, 1925 |
Giant Plane Designed to Cross Atlantic in a Day |
Not Available |
NA |
|
November, 1925 |
Skyscraper Steel Worker |
Not Available |
NA |
|
February, 1926 |
How Fast Can Your Mind Work? |
Fair/Good, taped spine |
$10.00 |
|
January, 1927 |
Pilot Coming Down in Parachute |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
May, 1927 |
Skyscraper Riveter by Herbert Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
September, 1927 |
Shipbuilders by Paus |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
October, 1927 |
Big Band with Microphone by Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
January, 1928 |
Observatory Telescope by Paus |
Not Available |
NA |
|
February, 1928 |
Crane Lifting Train Engine by Paus 2 copies |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
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 |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
July, 1928 |
Nighttime Airplane Landing |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
August, 1928 |
Speed Motorboat Racers by Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
November, 1928 |
Railroad Signalman by Paus |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
January, 1929 |
Wilbur & Orville Wright: Inventors of the Airplane |
Not Available |
NA |
|
March, 1929 |
Parachutist by Paus |
Not Available |
NA |
|
April, 1929 |
Bridge Surveyors by Paus |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
July, 1929 |
Aviators by Herbert Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
December, 1929 |
Skyscraper Welder by Paus |
Good, spine starting to fray |
$17.50 |
|
January, 1930 |
Installing Cruise Ship Propeller by Paus |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
Same |
Good, top right corner off |
$17.50 |
|
|
February, 1930 |
Steel Worker by Paus |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
March, 1930 |
DO-X Flying Boat by Dornier by Paus |
Good |
$20.00 |
|
Same |
Good, edge tear |
$17.50 |
|
|
April, 1930 |
Glider by Paus 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
June, 1930 |
Air Mail Pilots cover by Paus 2 copies |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
July, 1930 |
Double-decker Bus by Paus 3 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Fair/Good |
$12.50 |
|
August, 1930 |
Splicing a Cable Mid-Atlantic by Paus 3 copies |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
September, 1930 |
Mass Military Flying by Paus 2 copies |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good, taped spine |
$15.00 |
|
October, 1930 |
Monorail by Paus 2 copies |
Good |
$25.00 |
|
November, 1930 |
Locomotive by Paus |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
December, 1930 |
Streamlined Auto Can Almost Fly |
Not Available |
N/A |
|
January, 1931 |
Wings on Skis by Paus |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
March, 1931 |
Successful Helicopter |
Not Available |
NA |
|
April, 1931 |
Boat Travels on Water or Land |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
May, 1931 |
Spinner Plane |
Not Available |
NA |
|
June, 1931 |
|
Good, spine split |
$17.50 |
|
July, 1931 |
House on Wheels Has All Home Comforts |
Not Available |
NA |
|
August, 1931 |
Speedboats Race Standing Still by Paus |
Not Available |
NA |
|
September, 1931 |
Weird Engine Hunts Gold on Ocean Floor |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
October, 1931 |
Uncle Sams New Motorcycle Cavalry |
Not Available |
NA |
|
November, 1931 |
Sleeping Volcano Flames at Touch of Electric Key 2 copies |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Fair/Good |
$12.50 |
|
December, 1931 |
Prof. Goddards Turbine Rocket Ship for Flight to Moon |
G/VG |
$25.00 |
|
January, 1932 |
Monster Electric Plant Run by Wind 3 copies |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
February, 1932 |
Speedy Ski-Car Rides Winter Snows |
Not Available |
NA |
|
March, 1932 |
Rocking Landscape Trains Flyers Indoors 2 copies |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
April, 1932 |
Each Wheel a Steam Engine |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
May, 1932 |
Motor-Driven Hoop |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
June, 1932 |
Ocean Marvels Seen From Underwater Bus |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
July, 1932 |
Magnetic Air Line |
Not Available |
NA |
|
August, 1932 |
Winged Target for Flying Gunners |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
September, 1932 |
Ocean Landing Fields of Artificial Ice |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
October, 1932 |
Whirlpool Tube For Submarine Rescues |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
November, 1932 |
Giant Railway for Ocean Liners |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
December, 1932 |
Air Driven Auto |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
January, 1933 |
Landing Airplane on Ramp Dragging from Ship |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
February, 1933 |
Defroster For Orchards 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good, fray |
$12.50 |
|
March, 1933 |
Art Deco Speed Boat 2 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
April, 1933 |
Making Movies In A Volcano |
Not Available |
NA |
|
May, 1933 |
New Rail Car Rises From Track At High Speed 3 copies |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
June, 1933 |
6-Propeller Flying Wing |
Not Available |
NA |
|
July, 1933 |
Edgar F. Wittmack cover -- Sailing |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
August, 1933 |
Speedboat with Airplane Tail |
Fair, no back cover |
$12.50 |
|
September, 1933 |
Airplane Attached To Water Wheel 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
October, 1933 |
A Short Cut To Flying 3 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
November, 1933 |
War Tank on One Wheel |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
December, 1933 |
Edgar F. Wittmack cover -- Huge Truck For Land or Water |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
January, 1934 |
Sea Tractor Saves Wrecked Ships 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
February, 1934 |
Cylinders Replace Wings in Airplane |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
Same 4 copies |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
|
March, 1934 |
Boat on Wheels -- 2 copies |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
Same |
Good, fray |
$15.00 |
|
|
April, 1934 |
New Streamlining for Big Ships |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
Same 2 copies |
Good, fray |
$12.50 |
|
|
Same |
Fair |
$6.00 |
|
May, 1934 |
Swinging Car Ride |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
Same 4 copies |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
|
June, 1934 |
Unsinkable Motor Boat with Round Hull 3 copies |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
July, 1934 |
Amphibian Cars For Monorail |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
August, 1934 |
Gyrocopter 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
September, 1934 |
Spearing Balloons Boat Race 3 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
October, 1934 |
Power From the Sun 3copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Fair/Good |
$12.50 |
|
November, 1934 |
|
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
Same |
Fair soiled cover |
$10.00 |
|
December, 1934 |
Underwater Sea Craft |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 3 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
January, 1935 |
Tiny Plane Launched from Back of Newest Aircraft |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Fair/Good |
$12.50 |
|
February, 1935 |
Ski Parachute 2 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good, cover scuff |
$15.00 |
|
March, 1935 |
Flying Whirligig 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
April, 1935 |
Monorail Car |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 2 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
May, 1935 |
Dirigible Hangar Rotates to Reduce Wind Peril |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
June, 1935 |
Safety Liner with Lifeboat Chutes |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
July, 1935 |
Edgar F. Wittmack cover Globe Stabilizing Helicopter |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
Same |
Good, corner chew |
$12.50 |
|
|
August, 1935 |
Boat Driven by Self-Bailing Rotors 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
September, 1935 |
Sphere-Wheeled Car 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
October, 1935 |
Tractor Boat 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good, covers loose |
$12.50 |
|
November, 1935 |
Windmill Operates Like a Turbine 4 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
December, 1935 |
Streamline Plane Is Flying Wind Tunnel |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
January, 1936 |
Ship on Stilts Rides Above Waves |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 2 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
February, 1936 |
Paddle Wheel Plane 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
Same 2 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
March, 1936 |
Power From Polar Gales |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
Same 2 copies |
Fair/Good |
$12.50 |
|
|
April, 1936 |
Big Guns Speed Mail Rockets 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 5 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
May, 1936 |
Spiral Rollers Drive Speed Boat 3 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 2 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
June, 1936 |
Motor Cycle Pulls Trailer for Camping |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
Same 2 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
Same |
Fair/Good loose covers |
$10.00 |
|
|
July, 1936 |
Rolling Ball War Tank 4 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
August, 1936 |
Paddle Wheels Drive Plane 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
September, 1936 |
Gasoline Motor Drives Speedy Road Toboggan 5 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
October, 1936 |
Oxygen Masks for Mountain Climbers 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 2 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
November, 1936 |
Giant |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 2 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
December, 1936 |
Armored Motorcycle Tractor |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
January, 1937 |
Amphibian Lifeboat Speeds Rescue 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 3 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
Same 2 copies |
Fair/Good |
$12.50 |
|
February, 1937 |
Tank Truck Fights Fire with Wall of Water |
G/VG |
$20.00 |
|
Same 2 copies |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
|
March, 1937 |
Oil Hunting Craft 4 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 3 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
Same |
Fair/Good |
$12.50 |
|
|
Same |
Fair, corner torn off |
$10.00 |
|
April, 1937 |
Training Glider 3 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 2 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
Same |
Fair/Good |
$12.50 |
|
May, 1937 |
Kangaroo Car Runs on Rear Wheels 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good, ink on cover |
$12.50 |
|
June, 1937 |
Bulletlike Rail Car Launches Giant Planes 3 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
July, 1937 |
Jungle Craft for Filming Animals 3 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 2 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good, rolled spine |
$12.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good, scuff, fray |
$10.00 |
|
August, 1937 |
Outboard Motor Drives Novel Surfboard 3 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
September, 1937 |
Directional Sound Detector Finds Ships in Fog 4 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 4 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
Same |
Good, pgs 63-66 missing |
$12.50 |
|
|
October, 1937 |
Biggest Atom-Smasher 3 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
November, 1937 |
Air Propelled Navy Craft |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
December, 1937 |
Octopus Sprinkler Fights Forest Fires 3 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 2 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
January, 1938 |
Air-Driven Boat |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 3 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
February, 1938 |
Bullet-like Motorcycle Sets Speed Record |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good, loose cover |
$15.00 |
|
March, 1938 |
Two-Wheel Car Runs on Giant Hoops 2 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 2 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
April, 1938 |
Rocket Ride Is Planetarium Visit |
Good |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same |
Fair, cover torn |
$10.00 |
|
May, 1938 |
Amphibious Tank Carrier 5 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 3 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
June, 1938 |
Hi-Speed Racing Car with Twin Hulls 3 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 5 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
July, 1938 |
Tank cover 3 copies |
G/VG |
$17.50 |
|
|
Same 3 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
|
Same |
Fair/Good, spine damage |
$10.00 |
|
August, 1938 |
21 Mile Parachute Jump 5 copies |
Good |
$15.00 |
|
September, 1938 |
Water Wheel Racing 4 copies |
Good |
$12.50 |
|
October, 1938 |
Tool Throws Dirt on Flames -- 2 copies |
G/VG |
$15.00 |
|
November, 1938 |
Mechanical Horse Runs Movie Race |
G/VG |
$15.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$12.50 |
|
|
Same |
Good, missing bc |
$6.00 |
|
December, 1938 |
Movies Train Big-Game Fishermen 2 copies |
G/VG |
$15.00 |
|
January, 1939 |
Ice Sailing |
Good |
$12.50 |
|
February, 1939 |
Windmill Planes |
G/VG |
$15.00 |
|
March, 1939 |
New York Worlds Fair Parachute Drop cover with 6 pages in color within on Fair Attractions |
Not Available |
NA |
|
April, 1939 |
Boat Rides on Underwater Wing |
Not Available |
NA |
|
May, 1939 |
High-Speed Train |
G/VG |
$15.00 |
|
June, 1939 |
Mechanized Water Polo |
G/VG |
$15.00 |
|
July, 1939 |
Firemen Use Telescoping Water Tower 2 copies |
Good |
$12.50 |
|
August, 1939 |
Wind-Powered Turbines |
Not Available |
NA |
|
September, 1939 |
(Smaller format hereon) Aircraft Engine Testing |
Good |
$12.50 |
|
Same |
Fair, wear |
$10.00 |
|
|
October, 1939 |
Sailing Bicycle |
G/VG |
$15.00 |
|
|
Same |
Good |
$12.50 |
|
November, 1939 |
Propeller-Driven Skiing Soldier |
G/VG |
$15.00 |
|
December, 1939 |
Army Aircraft 2 copies |
G/VG |
$15.00 |