(1948 1st ed. dj McClelland & Stewart; signed to Bill and Nancy Cutt)
(1st ed. McClelland & Stewart dj, 1964–dj design Frank Newfeld, signed)
(old Edmonton newspaper article about Kreisel slipped into above book)
Vienna-born Henry Kreisel (1922-1991) escaped the Nazis when they occupied Austrai in 1938. he was interned in England before coming to Canada and eventually settled in Edmonton where he taught English and was once the head of that department at the U of A. Kreisel was a significant writer about immigrant experience and his works allude to the plight of the Jews under the Nazis in WWII. His first book, The Rich Man (1948) was an instant success; then came another novel set in Edmonton called The Betrayal (1964). Kreisel modelled his writing on that of Joseph Conrad, another famous immigrant writer.