Viking, Markham, 1989, believe 1^st.  ISBN 0-670-82526-3.  Hard cover, 557 pages plus Author’s Note.  Oatmeal coloured boards, very minimal edge wear with a touch of sunning, binding sound with head and tail bands.  Dust jacket with price intact shows light edge and cover wear, tiny edge tears and one 15mm tear at upper rear corner panel.  Interior clean and unmarked; gently read if at all.  ‘Solomon Gursky chose a path very different from that of his two brothers, Bernard the rambunctious businessman, and Morrie, the weak-willed mediator.  Kidnapped by his enigmatic grandfather and taken to the Polar Sea when he was a youth, Solomon learns survival and a peculiar mysticism in the North – a mysticism that surrounds him all his life.’ (from front flap)