The Warden: A Portrait of John Sparrow

First edition, first impression.  xiv, 258pp, with black and white plate illustrations.  Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. 8vo.  Cloth very slightly pushed in at spine tips.  Pages a little creamy else volume is neat, clean and tight throughout.  Glossy dust jacket, not price clipped, a little shelf worn and gently bumped on extreme edges.  

The authorised biography of John Sparrow (1906-1992), for 25 years the warden of All Souls, Oxford: barrister, scholar, essayist, connoisseur, book collector, intellectual and homosexual, who established his reputation beyond Oxford with the publication of an article in Encounter Magazine on Lady Chatterley’s Lover the the obscenity trial it triggered.