Penguin 1st Edition, published 1939.
Memoirs of John Fothergill, the high-handed host of the Spread Eagle Inn at Thame between the world wars, described himself in Who’s Who as ‘Pioneer Amateur Innkeeper’. Evelyn Waugh, sending him a copy of Decline and Fall, inscribed it to ‘Oxford’s only civilising influence’. To those who, in 1931, goggled and giggled at his innkeeping confessions, Fothergill was the contumacious dandy for ever locked in combat with ‘clients’ who fell short of his standards, a man prepared to track down and rebuke a brigadier-general who, with his wife, dropped in to the Spread Eagle to use the lavatory without a please or thank you.
Condition grading: Good. Light crease to top right corner of front cover. White mark to top left corner of front cover and to top edge of rear cover. Minor wear to spine ends. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1939.
Memoirs of John Fothergill, the high-handed host of the Spread Eagle Inn at Thame between the world wars, described himself in Who’s Who as ‘Pioneer Amateur Innkeeper’. Evelyn Waugh, sending him a copy of Decline and Fall, inscribed it to ‘Oxford’s only civilising influence’. To those who, in 1931, goggled and giggled at his innkeeping confessions, Fothergill was the contumacious dandy for ever locked in combat with ‘clients’ who fell short of his standards, a man prepared to track down and rebuke a brigadier-general who, with his wife, dropped in to the Spread Eagle to use the lavatory without a please or thank you.
Condition grading: Good. Light crease to top right corner of front cover. White mark to top left corner of front cover and to top edge of rear cover. Minor wear to spine ends. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
