SYMINGTON, Noël Howard, as Whipplesnaith.

£975 · Offered by Peter Harrington

The Night Climbers of Cambridge. First edition. This is the first impression, printed in October; it quickly sold out and was reprinted in November. The "Night Climbers" were undergraduate urban explorers who infamously scaled the roofs of the city. Each chapter features a detailed account of a conquered building or college, including Trinity, Pembroke, and St John's.The author, "Whipplesnaith", was later identified as Noël Howard Symington (1913-1970), a student at King's College.

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