Oliver Wiswell.

ROBERTS, Kenneth.

$500.00

Item Number: 148115

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1940.

Signed limited first edition of Kenneth Roberts’ work of historical fiction on the American Revolution from a Loyalist’s perspective, from the Siege of Boston to the United Empire Loyalists. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece to Volume I, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. One of only one thousand and fifty numbered copies signed by Kenneth Roberts. This is number 318. In near fine condition. Ownership signature to the limitations page in volume one and on the half-title page in volume two. Housed in the original publisher’s slipcase.

"The present novel, which is history for all its fictional form, will startle every man, woman and child who has been taught to believe that the American Revolution was fought and won by bands of angels. It is, in short, the Revolution as seen by men whom the Revolutionary fathers called Tories and who called themselves Loyalists. In it all the bitterness of a horrible civil war is powerfully and dramatically brought back to live" (New York Times).