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Blackie & Son, London & Glasgow, 1939, 1st edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.Good /No Jacket.Inscribed (by the owner, P.A.Fanshawe) and dated 1945; also signed on ffep by R.M.Carey, C.M.E.Seaman, R.C.Watt, J.B.Hope Simpson, R.I.Sharrock, A.C.Harrison, A.Constant and W.H.Perkins (whose mature handwritings suggest a reunion rather than a leaving event).Spine cloth just starting to split along hinges, sl.foxing to fore-edge.This is a concise history of a famous Midland school, founded by grocer Lawrence Sherriff in 1567.His legacy fortunately included land in Holborn, London whose rents help sustain the school even until today.Its enduring contribution to sporting history somewhat overshadows its achievement in turning out fine young men with a good public school education.Connoisseurs of scholars' argot will appreciate that ""The Tosh"" is the open air swimming pool (figured facing p.103).(10), 182 pp.; frontispiece of The Headmasters' Window; 7 other monochrome plates. In English.

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