Richler, Mordecai (1931-2001) — Solomon Gursky Was Here [SIGNED, First Printing]

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Viking First Edition, First Printing pp. 557, [1]. Thick octavo. Publisher's speckeld cream boards with blue lettering to the spine. No detectable flaws to the extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine, and housed in its original near fine unclipped dustjacket bearing original price of $26.95 showing a light touch of sunning to the spine. Near fine. Crisply SIGNED by Richler to the ffep. A lovely copy. ¶ "Winner of the 1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1990. Since the age of 11, Moses Berger has been obsessed with the Gursky clan, an insanely wealthy, profoundly seductive family of Jewish-Canadian descent. Now a 52-year-old alcoholic biographer, Berger is desperately trying to chronicle the stories of their lives, especially that of the mysterious Solomon Gursky, who may or may not have died in a plane crash. A rich, irreverent, and exuberant comic masterpiece from the author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and St Urbain's Horseman."