Oliver Wiswell.

NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1940, first edition.. Two volumes, de luxe binding, TEG, full red leather, two gilt rules around front and back covers, spine with five raised bands with title, author, volume number, and date in gilt along with other gilt rules and decor, marbled endpapers with gilt decor around inside front and rear covers, with Thomas Buell's map of Loyal Long Island 1776-1783 to show Howe's victory over the rebels at Brooklyn Aug. 27, 1776 and the capture of New York Sept. 15, 1776 in Vol. I, color frontispiece portrait of Oliver Wiswell from the painting by Grant Wood, Buell's map of Virginia and the Carolinas showing Boone's wilderness road to Kentucky in Vol. II, No. 182 of 1,050 copies Signed by Roberts, this was Doubleday, Doran publishing executive Malcolm Johnson's copy with a letter of provenance from his daughter-in-law, Johnson is one of several people acknowledged by Roberts just before the beginning of the book, although the standard signed/limited edition of this book (in brown cloth) came with a slipcase, it is unlikely that this de luxe binding was issued to Johnson in that manner. Minor damp staining to bottom spine of Vol. I, both volumes with wear to leather along the spines, else a very solid set.