New York: Viking. Second printing Oct., 1956 (first was Sept., 1956). Dark blue cloth stamped in silver, red topstain. Fine copy. In the Canadian issue (Macmillan) jacket, as some were issued. Black jacket has a few short edge tears, light rubbing, VG, attractive, red unfaded. The Winnipeg author's first book, a novel of the immigrant experience, especially Jewish, in Western Canada, and a winner of the Governor-General's Award.