First Edition - 1929 - See photos, worn spine. Rare book.
 
Dick Grace is the sole surviving veteran of the Squadron of Death, that band of daredevil movie stunt men, fliers, divers, horsemen, crack-up artists, who daily mortgage their lives to furnish thrills for the public. In this book, he tells both his own story, which is packed with thrills on every page, and the story of the other stunt men who drive horses off sixty foot cliffs, wrestle with alligators, infuriate lions, run motorcycles over precipices, jump into fire nets from six and nine-story buildings, dive through skylights, and race through steel mills, jumping over caldrons of molten metal for little more than an extra's pay. But it is in 'major' stunts that Dick Grace made his fame, stunts that have to do with the air. He is the most famous movie plane crasher alive. He has crashed over thirty planes intentionally and lived to spend the money! He broke his neck making 'Wings' and didn't see a doctor for two days!...He has made over 160 changes from speeding plane to express train, to motor-boat, to automobile, to another plane in midair...