Douglas f meyer (7 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Signed by co-author, John K. Clemens, on ffep. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: As New.

Full-Leather. Condición: Very Good-. Very Good- full leather hardcover, no names or marks. There are a few pages at the middle that have been crimped. There is a page about the author is upside down. Has some minor shelf wear to the cover. ; 8.90 X 6 X 1.10 inches; 225 pages.

soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated with black and white diagrams. 24 cm. 608 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear and creasing to covers, light soiling to page edges.

Hardcover. Condición: 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.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. xiv, 226 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ; LCCN: 64-11942 ; LC: D16; GR65; Dewey: 901.8 ; OCLC: 1618122 ; Revision of author's thesis, University of Louvain; brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels ; Contents: Oral tradition and historical methodology -- Tradition as a chain of testimonies -- Understanding the testimony -- The testimony as a mirage or reality -- The evaluation of testimonies -- Historical knowledge (Titlies, slogans, didactic formulae, ritual formulae, historical poetry, panegyric poetry, religious poetry, personal poetry, place-names, personal names, Tales concerning general history, tales concerning local history, tales concerning family history, myths, aetiological myths, tales of artistic merit, personal recollections, legal precedents, explanatory commentaries, occasional comments) -- The interpretation of history -- In search of oral traditions -- Bibliography of works cited ; FINE. Book. …

Paperback. Condición: Good. First Edition. 112 pages. Fiction: Love Wasn't Enough; Rage on the Mountain; First Proposal; Young and Scared; The Girl He Remembered (conclusion); The Artless Heiress (part 4 of 8). Articles: Beware Those Phony Stock Salesmen! - Boiler room operators; The Actor in Me - Kirk Douglas (part 1 of 2) - with many photos; The High Price of Haste - Photo of hideous crash scene on highway 25-70 near Marshall, North Carolina in which an asphalt truck collided with an oncoming car cilling several people including the Reverend and Mrs. T.H. Shackelford, their missionary daughter, the Reverend and Mrs. Robert N. Barefoot and their seven-year-old niece; They Rescue the Mail - how dogged postal sleuths find and deliver letters that have been lost, stolen, burned drowned or macerated by catastrophe or crime; Bargain Bonanza - Hoss Monday in Canton, Texas is the day for swapping lies, knives, horses, dogs and any kind of livestock you can name; Let's Be Sensible About Foreign Aid; The Deep South Says "Never!" (part 2 of 5) - a report from Summerton, South Carolina on how the people have reacted to the Federal integration order; Cruising the Cool Coast - great color photos of the unspoiled Maine coast; . Ads: Nice color American Motors ad inside front cover shows several of their models and features; Nice GE color-photo ad for their pink kitchen appliances; Nice two-page ad for United Aircraft Corporation shows their C-133, Convair F-102As, plus a great color air cargo illustration; Nice color Oldsmobile ad for their Golden Rocket 88 Holiday Coupe; Chevrolet ad in mountain setting; Nice color Imperial car ad shows a light blue model; Winston cigarettes; Pream coffee; International trucks; Douglas DC-7; Spud cigarettes; Buick Roadmaster 75; Great one-page black and white photo ad for Jeep; Louisa May Alcott is features in a U.S. Savings Bond ad; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Clymer, John (cover); Leahey, Robert; Ard, Kurt; Stone, Dick; Utz, Thornton; Buckham, Lynn; (ilustrador). …