Description
The signed limited edition of Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts.
Octavo, [two volumes], [viii], 709pp; [viii], 199pp. Publisher’s red cloth, titles in gilt on the spines, top edges gilt. Map endpapers in Volume I. Volume II includes a frontispiece portrait of Major Robert Rogers. Lacking the publisher’s slipcase and dust jackets, with a custom red cloth slipcase.
One of 1050 numbered copies signed by Roberts on the limitation page, this being number 302. One thousand copies were offered for sale.
Published in 1937, Northwest Passage is Kenneth Roberts’s historical novel about Major Robert Rogers and his Rangers during the French and Indian War. The book became a major bestseller and was adapted into the 1940 film starring Spencer Tracy.
