New York: Viking. Inscribed by Author; Second printing, Jan. 1983. Octavo, Cloth & boards. Small soft bump to upper outer corner of front board, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has a nick to upper outer corner of front panel, else fine. The author's third book, the 1982 winner of the Whitbread Award for a first novel as well as a James Tait Memorial Prize. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to a Canadian author & impresario who brought him to Toronto for a reading, with the inscribee's tidy ink name and date at front. "For____, affectionately and with many, many thanks ! Bruce". ; Signed by Author