Signet, Scarborough, ON, 1977, 1st pr thus.  ISBN 0-451-07748-2.  MMPB, 172 pages.  Wraps have edge and cover wear, creases and reading creases, small loss at upper front corner, wear to top fore-edge corner of page block.  Binding sound; age spots and small stains on outer page block.  Small ink scribble on verso of front wrap, prior owner’s name on first page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages; black & white photo section.  ‘She was twentieth of twenty-two children in her family.  At six, her leg was in a brace from a series of childhood illnesses.  By the time she was sixteen, she was running in the Olympics – winning a bronze medal.  At eighteen, she was the mother of a child – and her athletic career seemed over.  Two years later, she was racing for America in the Olympics once more – and making history.’ (from rear wrap)