Paul Revere and the World He Lived In

New York: The American Past Book-of-the-Month Club, 1983. Hardcover. New foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin. Small 4to. Blue and salmon cloth with copper spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket, slipcase with pictorial label. xxii, 547pp. Color frontispiece, maps, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Sewn-in blue silk page marker. Fine/near fine/very good. Jacket spine a bit sunned. Tight, handsome reprint of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1942 biography -- this unique copy with choice philatelic additions: Tipped to facing inner flyleaves are a relevant Commemorative cover and a First Day Cover. At left is the 8-cent "Boston Tea Party" block of four, 6½" X 3½" envelope, with four stamps at upper right cancelled in Boston on 4 July 1973 and entire envelope front a "Spirit of '76" pictorial cachet. At right is the 10-cent "US Bicentennial" stamp depicting "Lexington & Concord 1775 by Sandham," 6½" X 3½" envelope, with single stamp at upper right cancelled in Lexington, MA on 19 April 1975 and with "First Day of Issue" duly stamped. Left half filled with pictorial cachet by Fleetwood. Revere was one of the masked demonstrators who boarded a British ship in Boston Harbor and dumped chests of tea into the bay; and the evening before the Battle of Lexington he rode through the countryside to warn citizens of coming British troops.