The Women’s Press, Toronto, 1982, believe 1^st pr.  ISBN 0-88961-073-8.  Trade soft cover, 121 pages.  Very good; wraps show some edge and cover wear, light creases; binding sound.  Prior owner’s name on FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages.  ‘The quilt which Donna E. Smyth’s first novel takes as its title draws together a special Canadian story, the story of a small group of people in rural Nova Scotia.  Hazel, Sam and a handful of women who piece together a quilt for a local raffle confront an unusual tragedy in their community – a tragedy that lays bare the raw plight of a battered wife in their midst.  In language that is at once straightforward and haunting, Quilt dramatizes the powerful events that touch ordinary lives.’ (from rear wrap)