First edition, first impression. [viii], 198pp, with some black and white illustrations. Blue cloth boards , gilt titles to spine. 8vo. Cloth very slightly pushed at spine tips and on corners. Top text block edge dull. Previous owner's name somewhat flamboutantly inked in the front free endpaper and a hint of aging to page else internally neat, clean and tight. In its original shelf worn dust jacket, bumped on edges and rubbed on corners and spine ends.
A n absorbing study of an eventful period in the life of a school. Goddard became headmaster at Aske's School, Hatcham in 1932, when the country was suffering from the privations of the post-depression years . His headmastership was to continue through the second world war, the following years of reconstruction and into the Cold War. With a wealth of detail recording the successes and failures of Aske's School, Hatcham, it also provides an insight into its evolution in a changing social environment.
