The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
1957. Reprinted. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white in-text illustrations. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Book is slightly forward leaning. Notable sunning and foxing to spine and boards. Small splits to spine joints.