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Victory Through Air Power
by Major Alexander P. de Seversky
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1942 Simon and Schuster, New York. 1942. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good+; suntoning to spine; sunfadint to tips of head and tail; bumped head and tail; endpaper browning; slight soiling to board edges. DJ: Good; chipping and missing small pieces at head, tail, and upper tips; light edge wear to top edges of DJ. Light blue cloth boards and spine with tarnished gilt on the spine and front board. Tinted textblock top. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Clean internals. Internal hinges are sound and not split. Frontispiece photo of GEN Billy Mitchell. 354 pp 8vo. This book tells how America can win the war (WWII). It shows how air power has won all the crucial battles to date. It explains why the United States is ideally equipped to use that weapon and take the offensive against the Axis. The author, like General Mitchell is and air power proponent fighting against an earthbound army and navy that cannot see how air power/superiority has given the Axis powers the ability to accomplish their military goals- Pearl Harbor, Poland, France. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Seller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 016381
- Title
- Victory Through Air Power
- Author
- Major Alexander P. de Seversky
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1942
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- World War II, World War I, air power, aviation, military aviation, military air power, Royal Air Force, Pearl Harbor, Blitz on Britain, Blitzkrieg of the Nazi powers, General William Mitchell, orthodox military mind, air superiority, American Air Power, U
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation/Aircraft;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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