Forge/Thomas Doherty, New York, September 2000, 1^st Trade Paperback Edition/Printing.  ISBN 0-312-87300-X.  Soft cover, 240 pages.  Very good; illustrated wraps have a touch of wear at upper spine, light corner creases on rear wrap; spine smooth; binding tight; small spot on fore-edge.  Inscribed and signed by author on title page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked; pages and outer page block tanned.  Black & white city map of Toronto plus two-page genealogy of characters.  ‘Green returns to the history of his own family with the prequel to his critically acclaimed Shadow of Ashland.  This is the story of Martin Radey, Greens grandfather.  Radey, the child of Irish immigrant parents in the late nineteenth-century Canada, lived most of his life in Toronto, for years a single parent after the death of his young wife.  But this is his story beginning at the moment of his death, drifting backward and starting again from his early life, a search for meaning in a welter of change and occasional tragedy.’ (from Google Books)