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191663165London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1916. 8vo. xviii 2 158 2 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Burgudy-coloured publisher’s cloth white lettering front cover & spine minor chipping & rubbing to lettering slight bowing to covers light shelfwear still VG copy w/ former ownership markings at gutter margin and bookseller’s stamp on front pastedown. Second edition of this informative work detailing the importance impact and details on construction and military capabilities of the 72 Imperial German Zeppelins in World War I. The author questions the decision by the French to not engage in building airships and degraded capabilities on the battlefield and in this edition specifically details the casualties and impact of the early German Zeppelin raids on England in 1916. Only 14 of the aircraft survived the War only to be destroyed afterwards or turned over to the Allies. John Lane, The Bodley Head, hardcover
1933ZEPPELIN028281Bilderstelle Lohse Dresden. 1933. First edition. Oblong quarto. Maps diagrams and 264 tipped-in silver bromide cigarette-card size photographs and a metal foil reproduction of commemorative medals. Pictorial card wrappers. The images show the Zeppelins in construction and in flight as well as many aerial views. Full-page photographic portrait of Graf von Zeppelin.Covers a bit creased and marked. Very good indeed in the original card box which is dusty marked and splitting. Bilderstelle Lohse, Dresden. unknown
0243878729.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
197364264New York NY: The Two Continents Publishing Group Ltd. 1973. Folio. 222 26 pp. With 82 colour illustrations many large folding 125 black & white illustrations some full page and 160 printed photographs. Gray cloth gilt dirigible on front cover gilt lettering on spine minor foxing to a few fore-edges and creases of large folding plates w/ d.j. still a VG/NF copy. First edition in English of this surprisingly scarce and extremely detailed lavishly illustrated work examining the development of the non-rigid and rigid airships of over 50 different basic designs built in several countries over a span of nearly 50 years. This work ranges from the first experiments with the “La France†airship the complex Zeppelin giants such as the “Graf Zeppelin†the “Hindenburg†the “R-100†the tragic “R-101†as well as the “Akron†and “Shenandoah.†The Two Continents Publishing Group, Ltd., hardcover