Air Power: Key to Survival by Alexander P. de Seversky - 1950

London: Herbert Jenkins, (1952). First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv + 314 pp. Very Good+, with bookplate and light sunning to edges; in a Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear and soiling. From dust jacket: This is the age of inter-hemispherical air strategy. Peace can be maintained -- or victory in war achieved -- only by a clear-cut superiority in long range aircraft capable of operating across oceans and destroying an enemy’s means of waging war at their source. Only such a force can deter aggression and shield the countries of the West from atomic destruction. Such is the thesis of this book. In an eye-witness report on Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Bikini the author re-evaluates the place of the atom bomb in modern warfare, and from this emerges the conclusion that despite its fearful power the A-bomb does not alter the basic principles in the air-power era. Sharply taking issue with present military policies, de Seversky deals with such vital… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1950. Dust jacket has a small chip top front and minor edge wear. In Brodart cover.. Very Good/DJ Good. Octavo.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952. 1st UK Edition. Blue Cloth. Good to Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 314 pp. Foreward by Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferte. Original paper wrapper, not price clipped. Photograph of atomic explosion at Bikini to rear of wrapper. Light soiling to wrapper, with a few nicks from the edges of the wrapper. Tear of 12 mm from lower edge of rear of wrapper. Some foxing to te fore edges and prelims. Several photographic plates and additional drawings illustrate the text. A very good copy of this book.

New York: Simon & Schuster. Good with no dust jacket. 1950. Hardcover. (slight wear) signed by author; presentation copy; Early printing. .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Good with no dust jacket. 1950. Hardcover. (slight wear) signed by author; presentation copy; Early printing. .

London: Herbert Jenkins. Chipped and torn jacket. Bookplate to fep. . Very Good. Cloth. 1952.

Good. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. 1950 Simon and Schuster Hardcover, no dust jacket. Inscribed by Seversky on ffep [from the estate of Justice Tom C. Clark, though not marked as such] Good overall condition with minor shelfwear.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952. 314 pages. Illustrated with 15 b/w plates, including maps and diagrams. Pages good condition. Foredges and endpapers lightly soiled. Blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Edges lightly worn. LIght fading at edges with about 1 inch of tail of spine discolored. White and blue DJ with red title. DJ has long taped vertical tear near spine edge of lower cover. Head/tail of spine and corner worn with section missing from tail of spine. Not price clipped. VG/GOOD-. 1st UK Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Octavo. Foreword by Richard L. Simon. With a prologue on "The Lesson of Korea" jacket design by Sol Immerman. Illustrations and folding map. Includes publisher's information card laid in loose. Dust jacket (unclipped; some tape reinforcement). Very good. 356 pages.

Signed and inscribed by Seversky: "To Governor J. Bracken Lee, with my warmest regards…1/19/51."
J. Bracken Lee (1899-1996), Governor of Utah, 1949-1957.