The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark. 1963 Penguin edition, first printing (c/r 1960). A British farce! A Scottish man moves to a factory town and acts as a chaos agent. Spark was a prolific midcentury writer  whose humor and observation shone in every novel.

Condition: Good reading copy.

"His name was Humphrey Place. He was that fellow that walked out on his wedding a few weeks ago."