First printing, same date on the title and copyright page, typical to HM until the 1970's. TIght, clean, flat, square, sharp and crisp book, in publisher's original red cloth, in DJ with wear, nicks and small tears. Maps on the endpapers, and internal. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1943.

This vivid account of the life and times of Paul Revere was first published in 1942 to great acclaim and a Pulitzer Prize. An elegant storyteller and expert historian, Esther Forbes paints a memorable portrait of American colonial history and of this most legendary of revolutionary heroes -- "not merely one man riding one horse on a certain lonely night of long ago, but a symbol to which his countrymen can yet turn."