wallis frank a (3 Ergebnisse)

hardback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered gilt, damp stained fading to the cloth but not penetrating beyond and with a good tight binding & clean and unmarked text, coloured frontis and b&w plates, 207pp.

Zustand: Near Fine. Philadelphia 1930 first edition. Lippincott. Hardcover octavo. 207p. Color frontispiece and 12 illus from drawings done on the spot by Frank A Wallis. Ivory cloth with blue picture of 3 men in a canoe going under a bridge on front cover panel and blue spine lettering. Near Fine. no owner marks. Good dust jacket - dj toned, inch-size chip from rear panel , light soiling. price clipped.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 273 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. ; ISBN: 1560980311 (alk. paper); 9781560980315 (alk. paper) LCCN: 90-22345 ; LC: TL657; Dewey: 387.7/325/09 ; OCLC: 22710600 ; blue cloth ; ex-lib, stamps, label ; no dustjacket ; Contents : In search of the real Count Zeppelin -- In the shadow of the titan : thoughts on the life and work of naval engineer Johann Schütte -- Building rigid airships -- Three communities and their changing fortunes -- Eckener's struggle to save the airship for Germany, 1919-1929 -- Zeppelin intermezzos in Detroit, 1920 and 1924 -- The political origins of the airship Graf Zeppelin, 1924-1928 -- France perceives the Zeppelins, 1924-1937 -- Politics, personality and technology : Airships in the manipulations of Dr. Hugo Eckener and Lord Thomson, 1919-1930 -- F. W. (Willy) von Meister : Portrait of an airship businessman -- Problems of helium and spy flights : the brief career of LZ 130 -- Conclusion ; John Duggan is editor of the journal "Zeppelin," ; Henry Cord Meyer is Emeritus Professor of History, University of California, Irvine. ; FINE. Book.