📚 Airships

Lighter than air: the Zeppelin age, the passenger dream, and the lessons the wrecks wrote down.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject airships in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Dans l'air	Alberto Santos-Dumont	1904	12
	British airships, past, present & future	George Whale	1919	11
	Deltoid Pumpkin Seed (7)	John McPhee	1963	8
	Airship	Patrick Abbott	1973	7
	Dr. Eckener's dream machine	Douglas Botting	2001	7
	The Hindenburg disaster	Matt Doeden	2006	6
	The millionth chance	James Leasor	1957	5
	Dirigeables	Henry Beaubois	1973	5
	Surviving the Hindenburg	Larry Verstraete	2012	5
	Ships in the sky	John Willard Toland	1957	4
	Who destroyed the Hindenburg!	A. A. Hoehling	1962	4
	The great dirigibles	John Willard Toland	1967	4
	The airship	Collier, Basil.	1974	4
	The Disaster of the Hindenburg	Shelley Tanaka	1993	4
	You wouldn't want to be on the Hindenburg!	Ian Graham	2009	4
	Introduction to Flight Testing	James W. Gregory	2021	4
	De la navigation aérienne par les aérostats ...	A. Charvin	1864	3
	Navigation aérienne, système Debayeux	Alfred Chapel	1880	3
	My air-ships	Alberto Santos-Dumont	1904	3
	Zeppelins and super-Zeppelins	R. P. Hearne	1916	3
	The story of the airship	Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company	1926	3
	The story of the airship (non-rigid)	Allen, Hugh	1942	3
	Lighter-than-air flight	Carroll V. Glines, Jr.	1965	3
	Helium, Child of the Sun	Clifford W. Seibel	1968	3
	The age of the airship	Edward Horton	1973	3
	Lighter than air	Lee Payne	1977	3
	The Giant Airships (Epic of Flight)	Douglas Botting	1980	3
	Disaster at the Pole	Wilbur Cross	2000	3
	The Zeppelin	Chant, Christopher.	2000	3
	Aerial navigation	Rufus Porter	1849	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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