Lighter Than Air
[B0962] Althoff, William F. Sky
Ships - A History Of The Airship In The United States Navy.
New York: Orion Books, 1990 First Edition, Fine/Fine. 304 p.,
photos. $40.00
[D1201] Archbold, Rick. Hindenburg
- An Illustrated History - Reliving The Era Of The Great Airships.
New York: Warner Books, 1994. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾"
- 12" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Near Fine. 229 p.,
photos, color photos, color illus., fold-out color illus. $40.00
[4419] Cottrell, Leonard. Up
in a Balloon. New York: S. G. Phillips, 1970. First
Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hard Cover. Very
Good / No Jacket. 192 pages, photos, illustrations. $3.00
[9310] Hoehling, A.A. Who
Destroyed the Hindenburg?. Boston: Little, Brown and
Co., 1962. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hard Cover.
Very Good / Very Good Minus. 2nd printing. Previous owner's
bookplate. 241 pages, photos. $3.00
[H0404] Hook, Thom. "Shenandoah"
Saga. Annapolis, MD: Air Show Publishers, 1973. First
Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. Very
Good Minus. Light fading to spine. 208 pages, photos. $10.00
[D1398] Jackson, Donald Dale.
The Aeronauts - The Epic Of Flight. Alexandria,
VA: Time-Life Books, 1980. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" -
12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Dust Jacket, as Issued.
Previous owner's embossed stamp. 176 p., photos, color photos,
color illus. $8.00
[4611] Jackson, Robert. Airships.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1973. First U.S. Edition.
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hard Cover. Good Minus /
No Jacket. "A popular history of dirigibles, Zeppelins,
blimps and other lighter-than-air craft." Damage to top
corner of spine with 1/2 inch piece missing, else VG. 277 pages,
photos. $3.00
[A315] Lord Ventry and Eugene
Kolesnik (editors). Jane's Pocket Book of Airships.
New York: Collier Books, 1977. First Thus. 32mo - over 4" -
5" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Horizontal
format book approximately 4-1/4" (11 cm) tall x 7" (18
cm) wide. 244 pages, photos. $6.00
[B0766] Marion, F. Wonderful
Balloon Ascents: or, The Conquest of the Skies - A History of
Balloons and Balloon Voyages. New York: Charles Scribner
& Co., 1870. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾"
tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Green cloth binding, top
edges gilt. Spine has been crudely reinforced withbrown cloth
tape. Previous owner's bookplate. 218 pages, illustrations, plus
ads. $65.00
[9123] McCarry, Charles. Double
Eagle. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1979 First
Edition, VG+/VG+. 278 p., photos. $12.50
[724] Mooney, Michael
MacDonald. The Hindenburg. New York: Dodd, Mead
& Company, 1972. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" -
9¾" Tall. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus / Good. Wear to edges
of DJ. 278 pages, photos. $5.00
[1906] Mooney, Michael
MacDonald. The Hindenburg. New York: Dodd, Mead
& Company, 1972. Book Club Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" -
9¾" Tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. 240 pages,
photos. $4.00
[D0744M] Mowthorpe,
Ces. Battlebags - British Airships Of The First World War.
Stroud, England: Wrens Park Publishing, 1998. First Edition. 4to
- over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. As New / As New.
The first book to record and describe in detail every single
airship built or used by Britain during the First World War. 194
p., photos, illus. $30.00
[A1204] Pryor, William
Clayton & Helen Sloman Pryor. The Dirigible Book - A
Photographic Picture-Book with a Story. New York:
Harcourt Brace & Company, 1936. 8vo - over 7¾" -
9¾" Tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Juvenile story
of a trip in a dirigible. 101 pages, of which 1/2 are full page
photos. $15.00
[B0786] Rosendahl, Charles E.
Up Ship!. New York: Dodd, Mead And Co., 1931
First Edition, VG+. No DJ. SIGNED. Gilt lettering and
illustration on cover are clean and bright, lettering on spine is
lightly soiled. Rosendahl was a renowned airship commander, in
charge of the Akron and the Los Angeles. 311 p., photos. $250.00
[820] Santos-Dumont, Alberto.
My Airships - The Story of My Life. New York:
Dover Publications, 1973. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.
Soft Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. 122 pages, photos,
illustrations. $7.50
[B0490] Vaeth, J. Gordon. Graf
Zeppelin - The Adventures of an Aerial Globetrotter. New
York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. First Edition. 8vo - over
7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good Plus.
Previous owner's bookplate. 235 pages, photos. $15.00
[C0364] Wirth, Dick and Jerry
Young. Ballooning - The Complete Guide To Riding The Winds.
New York: Random House, 1980, VG. Soft Cover. Gift inscription.
168 p., photos, color photos, illus. $15.00
[8005] Zeppelin. Zeppelin
- Weltfahrten. Dresden, Germany: Bilderstelle Lohse,
1933, G+. Soft Cover. The history of the airship from 1899 to the
around the world flight of the Graf Zeppelin in 1932. Book has
264 real photographs neatly mounted in the text. Photos are about
1-1/2 by 2-1/4 inches. Photos of airships, construction,
personalities, ports of call. Text in German. Circa 50 leaves.
$350.00
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