Victory Through Air Power
signed
1942 · New York
by DE SEVERSKY, MAJOR ALEXANDER P
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1942. Later printing. Signed presentation copy inscribed to World War II American air ace, Jack Darmody by De Serversky, Inscribed in ink on the photograph portrait of the book’s dedicatee, General Billy Mitchell: “To Capt. Jack Darmody, one of the best ever, Major Alexander P. De Seversky.” Signature of his wife, Margaret Darmody, on the rear endpaper. Very good in a chipped dust jacket with a very worn rear panel. A colleague of General Billy Mitchell and a major figure in aviation history as well as inventor of the automatic bombsight, De Seversky appeared in the Walt Disney film version of this book as himself punctuating animated sequences on the history of flight and the importance of air power to winning the war. (Inventory #: 9830J)