Children of the Dead End. The Autobiography of a Navvy. London: Jenkins, 1914. Third Edition. Pictorial cloth boards, in very good condition. Previous owner’s name to front free endpaper.

The author’s greatest literary success, an autobiographical account of his early life in Scotland, first published in 1914.

Patrick MacGill (1889-1963) was an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as The Navvy Poet because he had worked as a navvy in Scotland before he began writing.