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Author: Patrick McGill Title: Children of the Dead End Autobiography of a Navvy Publication: First Edition 1st Impression Published By Herbert Jenkins London 1914………………………………. (See Pictures)Condition Of Book: This is a Very Good Copy of this hardcover book in maroon buckram boards with gilt title lettering to spine.Top edge of the book is in gilt.Page edges are a little tanned and spotted.There are NO previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.8vo 305pp First Edition 1st Impression [1914] ” Written as a piece of fiction, this text is Patrick MacGill’s autobiography. Starting with an account of his childhood in Ireland at the end of the 19th century, the story moves to Scotland where, tramp then gang-labourer and then navvy, Dermond Flynn (as he sometimes calls himself) discovers himself as a writer.Fantastic novel with frank assessment of the hard life working as a Navvy.”
