Dacre Balsdon — Have a New Master

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1935. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Dacre Balsdon's satirical novel. The first edition of this work. A scarce novel seen institutionally only at the National Library of Scotland, of Wales, the British Library, and the University of Oxford Libraries. Satirical novel concerned with the endowed public schools of Great Britain. Written by John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon, known as Dacre Balsdon, English ancient historian and writer of the twentieth century. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally with bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, backstrip gently faded, minor damp marking to lower right corner to front board. Boards only lightly marked. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .