Name: JENNINGS' DIARY
SKU: 1607704
Price: 10.00 GBP
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JENNINGS' DIARY

Published by Collins. 1960

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Red boards, black title to spine. Colour frontis. 253 pages.

Spine bumped. Endpapers foxed; light page browning. Wrapper is edge creased with some small tears and minor chips; 6/- price sticker to front flap.

Stock no. 1607704

Sorry this book has been sold (10/11/2017)

It is a good thing to keep a diary and an even better one to safeguard its secrets by writing them in code. But the trouble with Jennings' code was that it made his most innocent entries read like the secret dossier of some Eastern European spy organisation.
Many hilarious incidents of the Easter term at Linbury Court are recorded for posterity in the ink-splashed pages of Jennings' diary. There was, for instance the astounding excavation of an alleged Roman chariot-wheel; Darbishire's ill-fated attempt, when laden with valuable glassware to ride side saddle; and Mr. Wilkins' anguish and frustration at finding his missing mark book at the bottom of Jennings' trunk.

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