The Scarperer. London: Hutchinson, 1966. First UK Edition. Black cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. Neat gift inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise a fine bright copy.

With a foreword by Rae Jeffs.

Behan’s only novel drawing on his extensive knowledge of criminal activity in Dublin and Paris. It first appeared in an engaging serial for the Irish Times under a pseudonym Emmet Street and was first published in book form in in the US in 1964 with this UK edition following in 1966.