ROSENDAHL, Commander C.E.
What About the Airship? The Challenge to the United States.
First Edition of What About the Airship? The Challenge to the United States; Inscribed by Commander C.E. Rosendahl to Charles Edison
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1938.
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First edition of this spirited defense of the airship that calls for America to secure and maintain airship superiority. Octavo, original publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top stain red, illustrated with 16 black and white photographic plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To the Honorable Charles Edison with the high regard and esteem of the author. C. E. Rosendahl 11 April 1938." The recipient, Charles Edison (1890-1969), was the son of inventor Thomas A. Edison. He served as Secretary of the Navy in 1940 and as Governor of New Jersey from 1941 to 1944. Very good in a very good dust jacket, bookplate to the front pastedown. Rare and desirable signed.
What About the Airship? The Challenge to the United States.
$1,200.00
In Stock
