THE OLD SCHOOL. A Study in the Oddities of the English Public School System.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With black and white illustrations and photographs. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping at the base of the spine. The contents, with a previous owner's bookplate on the front free endpaper, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is a touch faded at the spine. Not price-clipped (£12.00 on the front flap).

Novelist Simon Raven explores both the idealised image and the sometimes harsh reality of the public school system, in which he himself was educated.