Author: JOHN HEYGATE. [Henry Williamson].
Title: Decent Fellows. A novel.
Description: Mundanus Ltd. London, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition - the casebound issue, considerably more uncommon than the usual card wrapper issue. 8vo. 317pp. Orange cloth lettered in black at the spine. Cloth a little marked and soiled, with some bruising to the backstrip ends. Some tanning to the leaf margins and with a minor slant to the binding. Former owner name pencilled to the head of the front free endpaper. A good copy of the author's first book, a scathing attack on his alma mater, Eton College, and dedicated to (and some say partly written by) Henry Williamson (who provided an introduction to the US edition published the following year). Affixed to the front free endpaper is a newspaper clipping: "Sir, I have read your reviewer's annihilating notice of Decent Fellows with great relish. Once only, I regret to say, when I was captain of the house at which he boarded, I had the good fortune, with ample justification, to beat the author of this deplorable book. His offence then, as now, was throwing mud, or stones, at something deserving of respect". Good.

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