A couple of days ago my husband pulled a book out of the bookcase. He had not opened it, let alone read it, for a very, very long time. He said it was actually quite good, despite the warning he wrote on the flyleaf sixty years ago this fall. 
[I googled Henry I. Christ and Andrew Jackson High School. Christ wrote more than 100 books: English and literature textbooks and adaptations of classics. AJHS no longer exists.]
Third Form is the prep school equivalent of freshman.
And here is the student himself from the 1955 yearbook, published the spring of his Third Form.


I LOVE old books, and it is even better when I can learn a little about their author and it's history :)
ReplyDeleteLove your story AND also love what is written inside the book. Great humour!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun.
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