SIGNED, Valiant Ambition, Nathaniel Philbrick, Signed on title page, 1st Edition

NY: Viking, 2016. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New - Unread. First edition, first printing with complete number line starting with 1. SIGNED by the author on the title page at a signing/appearance at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon. The dust jacket is unclipped ($30.00) and pristine. Illustrated endpapers. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover.

In June 1776, the vulnerable Continental Army under an unsure George Washington (who had never commanded a large force in battle) evacuates New York after a devastating defeat by the largest naval fleet in the history of the world. In September, near the Canadian border, his favorite general, Benedict Arnold, accomplishes a miracle victory on Lake Champlain. Four years later, as the book ends, Washington has vanquished his demons but Arnold is on trial for treason, and America is forced to realize that the real threat to their liberties might not come from without but from within.