The Ballad of Peckham Rye

London: Macmillan, 1960.

First Edition. Publisher's pale blue cloth, some colour fade to spine, with the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket slightly rubbed at spine ends, small areas of rubbing at joints with flaps, else nice and bright with no fading to the backstrip. Without old inscriptions etc. A VG+ copy. The wickedly farcical fable of a blue-collar town turned upside down. When the firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley hires Dougal Douglas (aka. Douglas Dougal) to carry out "human research" into the private lives of its workforce, they are in no way prepared for the mayhem, mutiny, and murder he will stir up. The text draws upon the supernatural, as well as issues of Irish and Scottish migrancy and offers a critique of the sterile and unremarkable nature of the lives of the Peckham working class.