Child of the Red Lion: An Hotelier's Story

Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK: Red Lion Publications, 1994. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good +/No Jacket. 128 p.; VG+; slight creasing of bottom corner of back cover, otherwise unmarked. Very nice and clean. Orig. publ. 1989 by Ex Libris Press. "For over seven decades, until her death in 1992, Molly Maidment was inseparable from the Red Lion Hotel, Salisbury's famous old coaching inn, whose origins date back to the thirteenth century. In 'Child of the Red Lion' the author describes her childhood years in her hotel world - surrounded by adults whose behaviour was occasionally baffling to a young child - and even divulges some of the tricks she played on unsuspecting guests and staff. . . . [she] fondly recalls visits to her maternal grandparents' home farm at Coombe Bissett in the Ebble Valley where, among other things, she develop a life-long love of pigs." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.