The Phantom Major: The Story of David Stirling and the S.A.S. Regiment by Virginia Cowles
1958. First Edition. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white portrait frontispiece and map. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is heavily dulled.