First UK edition, first printing (preceded by the US edition in the same year). 390pp, maps on endpapers. In black cloth boards with gilt titles on spine (cloth a little rounded at spine ends). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (a tad rubbed at corners and spine ends, lightly bumped at head of spine). Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. 8vo. Touching on a little known but critically important campaign of the American Revolutionary War, this is a gripping and vivid tale of an American soldier and his plans to seek a new life in the wilderness known as Kentucky.
