Author: VERCHERES DE BOUCHERVILLE, Thomas
Title: War on the Detroit: The Chronicles of Thomas Vercheres de Boucherville and the Capitulation by an Ohio Volunteer
Description: Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1940. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, rules and decoration. xxvi, 347pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 2 maps (one foldout). Fair only. Spine and portions of both boards sunned and mottled; endpapers age toned and a bit spotted, though text block tight and quite nice. To call this 38th volume in the annual "Lakeside Classics" series of Americana reprints "well loved" would be disingenuous and euphemistic. But despite the homely condition it bears a distinguished provenance, hailing from the collection of Illinois senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021) and before him of his father, Illinois governor and twice Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65). R.R. Donnelley's Christmas keepsakes were produced for customers and employees beginning in 1903. This is the second time only that the journal of French fur trader/merchant/militia officer Vercheres (1784-1857) was published in English, the first being 1935. "The Capitulation" by unnamed author was first published in Chillicothe in 1812 and editor Quaife questions whether the "Ohio Volunteer" James Foster (named on book’s spine and list of Lakeside titles) who some identify as the author is actually correct. .

Keywords: Americana Military History


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