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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Popular Science 1941 Very Good/ Small tears to spine, Bright cover. In Plastic. Includes: New Tools for Army Strength; How Warplanes Fight at Night; etc.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. items by/about: Giant "Atom Gun" to Fight Disease; Danger Meter for Your Car; Test-tube Flowers; Long-Distance Television; Radoium Air Rraid Shelter; Parachusets to Trap Enemy Bombers; X-rays; Photography; Inventions; Etc. 240 clean, unmarked pages, w/some corner wear on last pages in the rear; pictorial wraps. B/W Illus; (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. items by/about: Trropers on wheels; Deep Heat Wonders; Slingshot Planes; Mass Produced Bombers, Sleep for Swing shifts; Building Dry Docks Under Water, Food from the Wild; Etc; 232 pages. B/W Illus (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. items by/about: Hickman Powell (new Resin Gluecamouflage Trickery); Edwin Teale (52,000 Hobbyists go to Work for Science); Carl Dreher (Air Defense--1941 Style);transportation Organizes for Defense; David M. Stearns (Little Boats with Mighty Stings, PT-boats);two-day Turnarounds on Servince Clipper Aircraft; Americans Study Air Raid Safeguards; Robert Peck (Clifford A. Nickle, Cellar Scientist); Assembly Ines; Roy Chapman Andrews (Here's My story); Etc 240 clean, unmarked pages, w/some corner wear on last pages in the rear; pictorial wraps. B/W Illus; Pictorial Wraps (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. items by/about: Hickman Powell (new Resin Gluecamouflage Trickery); Edwin Teale (52,000 Hobbyists go to Work for Science); Carl Dreher (Air Defense--1941 Style);transportation Organizes for Defense; David M. Stearns (Little Boats with Mighty Stings, PT-boats);two-day Turnarounds on Servince Clipper Aircraft; Americans Study Air Raid Safeguards; Robert Peck (Clifford A. Nickle, Cellar Scientist); Assembly Ines; Roy Chapman Andrews (Here's My story); Etc 240 clean, unmarked pages, w/closed (repaired) tear on front cover. B/W Illus; Pictorial Wraps (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. 250 clean, unmarked pages; small tears and chipping of wraps; items by/about:Hickman Powell (The Kite That Smashed Berlin); George Polk (Climb Into a Navy Scout Plane on Hight recon); Dynamite in Salvage Work; Ice Age "Zoo" in California; Wood That Fights Fire and Decay; Vultee Aircraf Corp. With Miniartures for Army Use; Davy Jones College for Navy Deep Sea divers; Pickaback Cargoes; German Junkers JU-88 and 188; Grumman Hellca F6f; Warplane Battles Markings; Model Tanks; Coast Guards Maintaining Lighthouses, and more.; pictorial wraps. B/W Illus; Pictorial Wraps (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. items by/about: Brigadier General Alden H. Waitt (Smoke Armour, Chemical warfare); Leonard Engel (Secret Rocket Weapons); Bernard Wolf (17 New badges and Insignias for war); Wolfpack Tactics on U-0Boats; William Vogel, Jr. (Truth About Tobacco); Space-Saving Airpo9rts; Albert Q. Maisel (Amonia); Hickman Powell (building Guns to Smash the Axis); Louis Teichman (Paper Airplanes); Arthur Grahame (Self-propelled Artillery); William S. Friedman (Has Precision Bombing Failed?); New Baseball; ; Etc. 228 clean, unmarked pages, ; pictorial wraps. B/W Illus; George D. Erben Cover Art (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. items by/about: Kenneth M. Swezey (Paper Gets Tough, Papermaking); Night Vision glasses; Carl Deher (What Plastics are Made Of); Rubber; William S. Friedman (Aviation; Army Planes, Tpyes Quality, etc); Scorpions; Synthetic Jewels & Gems:V-mail Microfilm Letters; Herbert Asbury (Pellets of Power, Electrons)Donald H.menzel (Celestial Yardstick, Measuring Space); John H. Walker (Automatic Weapons); Etc.; 230 clean, unmarked pages; pictorial wraps; closed tear on rear cover. B/W Illus; Jack Coggins Cover Art (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. items by/about: Deep Sea Exploration; Telescope, Camera;;aviation: P-59 Airacomet; Devon Francis (You An't Fly Without Airfields; Airports in the Air Age)navy Rockets & Zoom Boats;Inside the B-29 Aircraft; Pressure Cabin Transports:Douglas A-26 Invader; Teaching Model for Dry-Docking; Aviation after the Warmigrating Butterflies;copper Mining;Tanks: Why Japan Can't Win on Land; Japanese weaponry Etc; 274 clean, unmarked pages; pictorial wraps. B/W Illus; (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. items by/about: Kenneth M. Swezey (Paper Gets Tough, Papermaking); Night Vision glasses; Carl Deher (What Plastics are Made Of); Rubber; William S. Friedman (Aviation; Army Planes, Tpyes Quality, etc); Scorpions; Synthetic Jewels & Gems:V-mail Microfilm Letters; Herbert Asbury (Pellets of Power, Electrons)Donald H.menzel (Celestial Yardstick, Measuring Space); John H. Walker (Automatic Weapons); Etc.; 230 clean, unmarked pages; pictorial wraps; closed tear on rear cover. B/W Illus; Jo Kotula Dj Art (illustrator). …

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 224 pp. Vol. 139, No. 1, July 1941 issue only! Solidly and well bound copy with moderate overall wear and use. Light damage to top of spine. Sydney Oxberry (Art Editor) (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. One inch tear at top and bottom of spine. Front cover fore edge is lightly rubbed. A little soiling on back cover. One inch tear in fore edge of page four. Jo Kotula front cover airplane artist. 232 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Popular Publishing 1942 Very Good/ Light wear to bright cover. Includes: Our Warplanes Grow Stronger; A Mightly Littel Gudn Protects Your Home; etc.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Magazine. Text clean; binding sound; minor wear to covers. Back cover ad features Boston Bruin Dit Clapper promoting Camel cigarettes. 240 pages. Thoroughly illustrated. Articles on camouflage, live steam model railroads, air-raid procedures, America's air defense plans, industrial conversion to war production, commercial truck driving, and more. Popular Science Monthly magazine February 1941. Cover art depicts two Grumman F4F-3 fighters. We also carry other issues of this magazine. Detailed scans of covers available. …

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Magazine. Text clean; binding sound; numbers faintly penciled on front cover, else minor wear to covers. 256 pages. Thoroughly illustrated in b&w and color. Articles on P-47 Thunderbolt, reading clouds, gliders, Beaufort Torpedo plane, early Volkswagens, and more. Popular Science Monthly magazine May 1944. We also carry other issues of this magazine. Detailed scans of covers available. …

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Magazine. Text clean; binding sound; minor wear to covers. 240 pages. Thoroughly illustrated in b&w and color. Articles on the Battle of the Atlantic Ocean, making a gas mask, welding magnesium, sulphur, P-47 Thunderbolt, chlorine, and more. Popular Science Monthly magazine December 1942. We also carry other issues of this magazine. Detailed scans of covers available.…

Ex-public library copy. xvi, 328 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Green dust jacket, color fading to spine with dark impression from removed shelf sticker near heel. Green cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine, slight scuffing at spine ends, slender impressions from removed tape strips at top and bottoms of boards with associated light impressions also on front and rear free endpapers. Library stamps upon top edge; stamp on front pastedown; paper remnants from removed pocket on front free endpaper; stamp and pencil markings on title page with swath of obtrusive black marker partially obscuring bar code sticker at top, associated color run from marker on opposing half-title verso and onto copyright page; no other library markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. With Acknowledgements, Explanatory Note, Introduction, Contributors, and Index. Text comprised of various essays divided into three parts as follows. [PART 1] - MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY TO STATEHOOD: "The Disposal of Lands in the Mississippi Territory" by Robert V. Haynes; "Indian Missions and Missionaries" by Percy L. Rainwater; "Mississippi 1817: A Sociological and Economic Analysis" by William B. Hamilton; "The Great Migration to the Mississippi Territory, 1798-1819" by Charles D. Lowery; "The Division of the Mississippi Territory" by Richard A. McLemore. [PART 2] - MISSISSIPPI STATEHOOD TO THE CONSTITUTION OF 1890: The Development of the Lyceum Movement in Mississippi" by Laura D. S. Sturdivant; "John A. Quitman, Fire-Eating Governor" by James H. McLendon; "The Vicksburg Campaign" by Archer Jones; "William L. Sharkey and Reconstruction, 1886-1873" by L. Marshall Hall; "Reminiscences of a Mississippian: Henry Stuart Foote" by John E. Gonzales; "Blanche K. Bruce: United States Senator, 1875-1881" by Melvin I. Urofsky; "Democratic Dissentions in Mississippi, 1878-1882" by Willie D. Halsell; "Senator James Zachariah George of Mississippi: Bourbon or Liberal?" by May Spencer Ringold. [PART 3] - TWENTIETH CENTURY MISSISSIPPI: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Mississippi, 1890-1920" by A. Elizabeth Taylor; "Writers of Greenville, Mississippi, 1915-1950" by Holmes Adams; "Theodore Gilmore Bilbo and the Mississippi Delta" by William D. McCain; "Fred Sullens and Prohibition" by John R. Skates, Jr.; "Fact and Tradition in Southern History" by Alfred H. Stone; and "Appendix: The Archives and History Building" by Charlotte Capers.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Magazine. Text clean; binding sound; minor wear to covers. 242 pages. Thoroughly illustrated in b&w and color. Articles on smoke bombs, war booty, the Rafwaffe, Civil Defense vehicles, and more. Popular Science Monthly magazine July 1944. We also carry other issues of this magazine. Detailed scans of covers available.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Magazine. Text clean; binding sound; minor wear to covers. 240 pages. Thoroughly illustrated. Articles on the electron microscope, spinning bombs, anti-tank guns, phosphorus, industrial camouflage, and more. Popular Science Monthly magazine October 1942. We also carry other issues of this magazine. Detailed scans of covers available.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Popular Science Publishing 1944 Good/ Front cover chipped at both lower corners cutting off the nose of the plane and part of the "S" in Science is chipped also. In Plastic. Includes: Can Man Survive Robot Warfare etc.

ed. paperback good+ condition with a bit of general wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Magazine. April, 1943. 224 pages. Illustrated. Front cover has chips, tears, and creases. The focus is on WWII with articles on Battleships, 155-mm Howitzer, Air Gunners, and more.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Magazine. Text clean; binding sound; minor wear to covers. 292 pages. Thoroughly illustrated. Articles on the B-29, seance fraud, new glues, rust, retread tires, sharpening scissors, and more. Popular Science Monthly magazine November 1944. We also carry other issues of this magazine. Detailed scans of covers available.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Magazine. Text clean; binding sound; minor wear to covers. 276 pages. Thoroughly illustrated. Articles on Disney's new character 'Panchito', anti-aircraft guns, mini-subs, uses of mercury, robotic weapons, and more. Popular Science Monthly magazine September 1944. Cover art by Jo Kotula. We also carry other issues of this magazine. Detailed scans of covers available.…