Ah, the continuing reluctance to use little words like 'get' and 'give'. Maybe it goes back to the time when short blunt Anglo Saxon words were for the serfs. While the educated classes used Latin and French.
Sounds like Martin Amis' "Time's Arrow " where the bin men deliver garbage which we process in ways we needn't go into here and then take back to the supermarket where they give us money. :-)
Online primary access to the currently transparent information rich catalogue resource Talisprism tends to suggest the ongoing availability of the singularly existant reproduction of the aforementioned work in Muswell Hill Library. Notwithstanding other urgent and important festive commitments and bearing in mind the ongoing (but obviously per pro climate change, temporary) footpath challenges in the safety domain, I plan to nip up there and borrow it.