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Signed book: What About the Airship? The Challenge to The United States. First edition. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 437 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in fountain pen, "To the Honorable Charles Edison, with the high regard and esteem of the author, C. E. Rosendahl, 11 April 1938." In very good to fine condition, with wear to the dust jacket, staining to the pastedowns, and a block of toning to the signed page.
Charles Edison (1890–1969), the son of Thomas A. Edison, served as Secretary of the Navy in 1940, and as Governor of New Jersey from 1941 to 1944.
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