Search Results: Airships

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1972. Book Club ed. . Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 240p., illus.

New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0312154747 . Thomas Dunne Book; 1.6 x 9.6 x 6.6 Inches; 442 pages .

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1972. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 240p., illus.

London: 101 Productions. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with dustjacket. 0858851938 . Review copy complete with original publishers review slip. Fine blue cloth hardcover, no Inscriptions. The dustjacket is sunned to the spine and is unclipped. ; Black & white photographs and drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 296 pages .

Ikenham, UK: Zeppelin Study Group, 2000. Soft cover. Fine. Zeppelin Study Series Handbook No. 5. 44 pages with information and history of the Zeppelin flights, the mail they carried, illustrated examples of mail, values, etc. A fine copy.

New York: Arno Press & The New York Times, 1971. Facsimile reprint . Hardcover. Originally published in London in 1786. 61 pages describing the author's balloon flights, one of which was over the English Channel. A book in the publishers' Physician Travelers series. A fine and bright copy, issued without dust jacket.

New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press, 1927. First US edition . Hardcover. The preface by Arthur Hungerford Pollen. 288 pages with index. Bound in dark blue cloth with lettering on the spine in gilt. A very good copy.

London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon. 1973. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 278 pages. A gripping minute by minute account of the final flight of the German airship. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon. 1973. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 278 pages. A gripping minute by minute account of the final flight of the German airship. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Holton, KS: The Gossip Printery, 1929. Printed wrappers. Fine. Three issues. Information on new air mail routs, official and simi-official cachets, airport dedications, aero shows, and numerous ads, some with illustrations. Nos. 4 & 5 are 52 pages including covers. No. 6 is 60 pages including covers. Each is in near fine condition.

Berlin: Im Verlag Ullstein, 1931. First edition . Soft cover. The German title translated into English; "Ferdinand Count Zeppelin; The Story of a Adventurous Life." 206 pages with photographs, plus one page of ads in the rear. Bound in plain stiff paper wrappers. A very good copy.

London: Cassell. 1959. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Good+ Dustjacket. Dustjacket has some small loss to edges and is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. 421 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Paris: Nouvelles Éditions Latines, 1959. First edition . Soft cover. Text in French. Preface by Gaston Bachelard. 239 pages with 44 illustrated plates in the rear. This copy has never been read as all pages remain unopend. Covers very lightly toned. A near fine, unread copy, in the original delicate tissue dust jacket with short tear and associated crease.

The Lighter-Than-Air Society. New with no dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Numbered #34 of 500. NOTE: This is HARDBOUND copy. ; 153 pages .

Harrisburg, PA: Military Service Publishing Company, 1947. First edition, first printing . Hardcover. Traces the development and use of military aviation during the first two years of World War I. A scholarly book of 503 pages with graphs, maps, extensive notes, references and index. Bound in original black cloth with lettering in gilt. Lightly bumped lower corner. Fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket with chips and tears and faded spine panel. The tears are tape mended on the reverse.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1935. Hardcover. Ruth Eger. Bound in colorful illustrated covers. Toning to the left side of the title page. Light wear to the lower corners. A very good copy.

Saint-Cloud, France: Belin Frères, 1900. Soft cover. Approximate translation of the French title into English; "Retrospective Museum, Class 34, Ballooning at the International Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris. Installation Committe Report." A French history and catalogue of the exhibition. 69 pages with illustrations and several plates. Bound in original gray paper covers printed in black. Spine heavily chipped and worn. Binding loose. A fair but intact copy, in tissue dust protector.

New York: Arno Press, 1972. Facsimile reprint . Hardcover. Continuation of the extended title reads; "With an Account of The Author's Most Important Air-Voyages and his Many Thrilling Adventures and Hairbreadth Escapes. Also, An Appendix, In Which Are Given Full Instructions for the Manufacture and Management of Balloons." An expanded edition of "System of Aeronautics," first published in 1850. This Arno issue reprints the 1873 To-Day Printing and Publishing Company edition. Wise was a pioneer in the field of ballooning making over 400 flights during his lifetime and was responsible for several innovations in balloon design. 650 pages with numerous full-page woodcut engravings of balloons in flight and of balloon types. Bound in light blue cloth with lettering and illustration in gilt. A fine and bright copy.

Paris: Librairie Universelle, 1908. Soft cover. Translated from the introduction; "The problem of air navigation is to provide an apparatus that can sustain in the middle of the air and heading at will through the atmosphere in which it is immersed." 276 pages with photographs and illustrations. Small tears at the head of the spine and half inch chip at the base have been professionally repaired. A very good plus copy. Never read as pages are unopened.

Stuttgart: Germania-Verlag G.M.B.H., 1925. Large hardcover. Issued on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Zeppelin. XII, 388 pages with numerous photographs and illustrations, several in color. Bound in original dark blue cloth with lettering, border and shield in gilt. Gilt borders worn. A very good copy.