The Ballad of Peckham Rye

  • London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1960
By Muriel Spark
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1960. Very Good/Very Good -. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1960. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],201pp. Jacket rather worn at extremities with neat archival tape repair to verso, spine cocked, cloth faded at margins, front hinge a bit loose but holding, else a Good to Very Good copy overall.

Early novel by the Scottish author and poet, describing the antics of Scottish migrant Dougal Douglas as he entwines himself in the lives of the inhabitants of the London working-class neighborhood Peckham Rye.

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