Aloft in the Shenandoah II, How Lew Heinsling Earned the Right to Fly in Uncle Sam's Newest Dirigible

Boston: W.A. Wilde Company, Publishers, 1926. Boards. Very good. Frank T MERRILL. 12mo; 322pp; green cloth over board, pictorial onlay of a dirigible in green and white to front; ownership in pencil dated Sept. 1926 to ffep; frontispiece printed in green; sunning to spine, light age-toning of paper; very good. Lewis E. Theiss (1878-1963) was an American author, often writing adventure stories for children, many about flying. In the Author's Forward, he writes about the preparation for this book, spending three weeks at Lakehurst Naval Air Station. Two weeks after leaving the Naval Air Station, the Shenandoah was wrecked, and a new story was planned.