"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. "
— Bertolt Brecht

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1970. [Wartime Adventure] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[8] 424. Publisher's black quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine, green cloth over boards, green endpapers, top edge green, and fore-edge untrimmed. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at $7.95. Some toning to pastedowns. Jacket sunned to spine, with light rubbing and chipping to edges. Very good. A popular Second World War novel concerning the R.A.F. Bomber Command, chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the best ninety-nine novels in English published since 1939. Item #59060
Price: £48.00