{"product_id":"sagittarius-rising-cecil-lewis-1st-edition","title":"Sagittarius Rising, Cecil Lewis — 1st Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication:\u003c\/b\u003e London, Peter Davies, 1937\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormatting:\u003c\/b\u003e 8vo, pp. [viii], 332.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Report:\u003c\/b\u003e Very Good. The book's cream cloth binding remains notably sound and tight, with only mild toning along the spine and board edges. The text block is square, though the page edges exhibit characteristic, light foxing typical of the era's paper stock. Internally, the pages remain clean, bright, and completely free of internal marking. The scarce original dust jacket remains fully intact and visually striking, showing only light rubbing, minor surface dirt to the rear panel, and a few tiny nicks to the spine ends and corners. Unclipped, it now presents excellently in a protective archival sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatalogue Note:\u003c\/b\u003e This is the First Cheap Edition (and Fifth Impression overall) of Cecil Lewis’s seminal World War I aviation memoir, issued in October 1937.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile true first impressions from 1936 command a significant premium, early pre-WWII impressions in their original dust jackets, particularly the striking, classic wrapper seen here, are increasingly scarce on the open market. The survival of the dust jacket is especially noteworthy, as wrappers from pre-war \"cheap editions\" were frequently discarded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA classic of aviation literature, \u003ci\u003eSagittarius Rising\u003c\/i\u003e is Cecil Lewis’s profoundly moving and thrillingly vivid memoir of his experiences as a fighter pilot during the First World War. Joining the Royal Flying Corps at just seventeen, Lewis soon found himself soaring above the trenches of the Somme in frail biplanes, engaging in deadly dogfights, and pioneering the aerial defence of London against night-time Zeppelin raids. Told with the lyrical prose of a poet and the unvarnished honesty of a survivor, Lewis’s account captures the intoxicating exhilaration of early flight balanced against the devastating, tragic realities of mechanised warfare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54552049615187,"sku":"4969","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260731_000928.jpg?v=1786438103","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/sagittarius-rising-cecil-lewis-1st-edition","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}