Arundel: A Chronicle of The Province of Maine And of The Secret Expedition Led by Benedict Arnold Against Quebec.

ROBERTS, Kenneth.

Item Number: 95240

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1931.

Early printing of “America’s greatest historical novel.” Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “For Robert Skinner with the sincere regard of his friend Kenneth Roberts Kennebunk Beach, Me., August 28th, 1931.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by N.C. Wyeth. A very bright example.

Ranked as one of the best historical romances of all time, Kenneth Roberts' Arundel is a masterful retelling of Benedict Arnold's secret expedition to attack Quebec city during the American Revolutionary War. The novel's primary characters hail from Kennebunkport, Maine (then called Arundel), where the Roberts himself was born in 1885. The second invasion of Quebec, the expedition took Arnold and his company through a difficult passage in the Maine wilderness in which 300 men turned back and another 200 died en route.