Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1948. Yellow cloth. Variant with no (vs black) topstain, which I believe to be the first binding. "Editorial" in pencil on front free endpaper, light yellowing to page edges, VG otherwise. Dust jacket has chips to tips of spine and outer corners, bit of sunning to red portion of spine, VG otherwise. First novel by this Austrian Jew who fled the Nazis and settled in Canada, a story of the immigrant experience and a novel selected for reprinting in the seminal New Canadian Library paperback series.; Octavo