first edition
1987 · Toronto
by ONDAATJE, Michael
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987. First Canadian Edition. First Printing. Octavo; black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 244pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with some pinpoint rubbing to corners and a single closed tear at lower edge of front panel. Novel fictionalizing the lives of the immigrants whose contributions to building Toronto in the early 1900's never became part of the city's official history. (Inventory #: 22792)