The Eagle of the Ninth

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First published in 1954, this is a sixth impression of 1963. Ex school library, but with only one stamp on ffep. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and slightly bruised, slight lean, not price clipped (12s 6d), no personal inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 256pp. Sutcliff's classic children's adventure novel on the attempts of a young Roman to recover the lost Eagle of the Ninth Legion. Rosemary Sutcliff was born in Surrey, the daughter of a naval officer. Later in her life she lived in Devon and then Sussex. At the age of two she contracted the progressively wasting Still's disease, and hence spent most of her life in a wheelchair. Sadly Rosemary died in 1992 at the age of 72. Now very scarce in this early Oxford edition, They were mostly sent out to public libraries and very few were released for sale to the public. N° de ref. del artículo 011324

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