[Hart, Moss. (1904–1961)] Berlin, Irving. (1888–1989) & Sinatra, Frank. (1915–1998), Roosevelt, Eleanor. (1884–1962) & Ball, Lucille. (1910–1989). Winged Victory. New York: Random House. 1943. First printing. 201 pp. Signed and Inscribed by Hart on the title-page, and signed by more than 30 contemporary stage and screen personalities on the front and rear blanks and endpapers. Owner's inscription on front pastedown and, on the half-title page, the names of some of owner's fellow airmen and officers, in an unknown hand. Thin 8vo, publisher's cloth, covers and spine markedly worn and soiled; hinges cracked, a few pages defaced or with doodles in ink. Signed by Moss Hart (on the title page), Irving Berlin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Lucille Ball, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Cantor, Charles Coburn, Franchot Tone, Fred Wearing, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy, Carol Bruce, Vera Zorina, James Melton, Lawrence Tibbett, Cesar Romero, Conrad Nagel, Lilly Pons, Noel Coward, Anne Sheridan, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Andre Kostelanetz, Franchot Tone etc., the last 8 of which (and others unlisted, mostly traced over) are on pages partially defaced with children's drawings. Together with 2 vintage snapshots, one inscribed on the verso "Me and the Winged Victory bomber."


Winged Victory is a play and, later, a film by Moss Hart, originally created and produced by the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II as a morale booster and as a fundraiser for the Army Emergency Relief Fund.