by William Bridgeman and Jacqueline Hazard

New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1956).

First edition, FOURTH printing

SIGNED, dated 1957, and warmly inscribed by co-author, and journalist, Jacqueline Hazard to the front end-paper.

Ms. Hazard married her co-author William Bridgeman shortly after this book was published.

Illustrated with fifteen photographs on quality black-and-white plates.

Bill (William) Bridgeman saw action while in the Navy during the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, and a year later flew as the test pilot for experimental, extreme high speed planes for the war by the next year.

This is the very detailed story of his supersonic, skyrocket flight in 1942.

Bridgeman obtained the highest speed and altitude of any pilot of his era, continued flying and testing jets in the 1950s, and was on the astronaut candidate list in 1958.

Some age-toning to the spine, light rubbing to the upper and lower spine edges and corner tips,  neat cut-out from the jacket flap with photo and short bio.of Hazard tipped onto the inside front cover, else very good in bi-color sky-blue/dark-blue linen with silver embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine; lacking a dust jacket.

Octavo; 316 pages; prologue.