Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader D.S.O., D.F.C. by Paul Brickhill
1955. Ninth Impression. 384 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Occasional thumb-marking present. Slight cracking to gutters of a few pages. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Split to bottom edge of spine. White spotted marking to board edges of front board. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning.