Tressall [sic], [ Tressell ], Robert — The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Penguin 1941 3rd impression. Paperback, G. 224pp, pages tanned, wrappers foxed. A fair copy. Penguin 251. Robert Noonan's classic novel, an account of a house painter's efforts to find work in the fictional English town of Mugsborough ( Hastings ). The original title page, drawn by Tressell, carried the subtitle: 'Being the story of twelve months in Hell, told by one of the damned, and written down by Robert Tressell'. Tressell's name is mispelt on the cover, the title & in the preface. The text is that of the 1918 edition.