Graf Zeppelin.
ECKENER Hugo; ZEPPELIN Ferdinand Graf von (1938)
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Sein Leben nach eigenen Aufzeichnungen und persönliche Errinerungen. Portrait frontispiece and ten other plates, full-page facsimile. A near fine copy in dust-jacket, just a little chipped at the head of the spine, retaining the original belly-band - "Das erste authentische Werk über den Graf Zeppelin." 184pp. Stuttgart,
Katalog der Zentralluftfahrtbücherei p.80. Life of the great airship pioneer by his pilot of choice. After Zeppelin's death Eckener continued the great man's efforts to develop commercial airship flights. The present work was published the year following the Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, N.J. which effectively ended the era of the international airship. Bookplate of the German historian Dr. Fritz Strahlmann to the front pastedown.
Stock Code: 84083
