DAS AEROMOBIL. EINE ERZÄHLUNG FÜR DIE REIFERE JUGEND. By Fritz Holten [pseudonym] .. de Kaltenboeck, Johannes, writing as "Fritz Holten - 1912

Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1912. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-248 [249-252: ads], 25 illustrations by A. Wald, title page printed in blue and black, original pictorial brown cloth, front panel stamped in white and gold, spine panel stamped in gray, rear panel stamped in blind, pictorial paper onlay with color illustration by A. Wald affixed to front panel, all edges stained blue-gray; blue-gray endpapers. First edition, fifth printing. A science fictional techno-thriller featuring spies, antigravity airships, a Japanese clockwork eagle spy-drone (illustrated on page 171), and Gernsbackian era illustrations. Lexikon 1, p. 145. Bloch (2002) 1543. Nagl, p. 256. Bookplate of A. R. Michaelis affixed to the front paste-down. Cloth just a bit dusty, a nearly fine copy. (#162911)