Beverley Robert David Freeman Hawke Editor (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Orange cloth with silver lettering on the spine. 171 historical and informative pages! "A danger confronts the enthusiast who wants to persuade friends to read Robert Beverley's History of Virginia. The urge persists to talk about the book as a significant historical document, a classic of American literature, or a pioneering study for anthropologists and naturalists. it is all these things, but such labels make the History something less than it is. Out of a blend of love and wrath - love for Virginia, wrath for the lies perpetrated about it in England - Beverley produced one of the liveliest, wittiest, and best written accounts we have of life in colonial America. He south, so he said, to give readers 'a tolerable entertainment.' Contemporaries on the receiving end of his barbs may have questioned the entertaining quality of the book, but modern readers never have. It remains as readable today as in 1705 when it was published.".…

Condition: FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. 1ST THUS. THIS BOOK WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1705 / A TITLE IN "AMERICAN HISTORY LANDMARKS" SERIES (GEN EDITOR DAVID F. HAWKE) "After John Smith, the first account of this colony, the first one penned by a native and the best contemporary record of its aboriginal tribes and the life of the early settlers." (HOWES #410) BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS ABOUT FINE WITH A COUPLE SHORT TEARS AND MODEST CORNER RUB, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.…