Cruisers of the Air The Story of Lighter-than-Air Craft: from the Days of Roger Bacon to the Making of the ZRS-4
New York: Macmillan, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pp. xxvi; 308. Frontis. photo of the ZRS-4. With a preface by David Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics. Illustrated throughout with b&w line drawings and photo reproductions. Intertextual maps. Bound in grey cloth with lettering and a zeppelin stamped in blue on front cover; blue lettering stamped on spine. Previous owner name and address on FFEP. Photo-illustrated dust jacket is price-clipped with a chip at head of spine and wear to extremities. Very Good+ / Very Good. Item #347
Eminently presentable copy with an exciting dust jacket photo juxtaposing an ornate Victorian structure with an ultra-modern dirigible. Dust jacket now preserved in a removable, archival sleeve.
Price: $115.00