Rats!

(Mallalieu.) 'The Pied Piper' [pseud. for J.P.W. Mallalieu]

Rats!

Description: FIRST EDITION, page borders faintly toned, occasional very faint spots, a few leaves slightly dog-eared at top corner, pp. 219, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, the backstrip lettered in a darker shade and gently faded, slight mustiness overall, dustjacket very lightly soiled with gently sunned backstrip panel, slight abrasion along front flap-fold, very good

Publication Details: Victor Gollancz, 1941

Notes: The Left Book Club edition is fairly common; the present version much less so.A Yorkshireman, Mallalieu attended Trinity College, Oxford and then the University of Chicago before his war service in the Royal Navy - also preceded by this book, a polemic against capitalist interests in the War, which includes verses from Browning's poem at the head of each section. After the War, he was a Labour M.P. for Huddersfield (and Huddersfield East) for over three decades.