L M Elliott GIVE ME LIBERTY Signed First Edition

First Edition, first print hardback of GIVE ME LIBERTY, by L. M. Elliott and published by Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, New York, 2006. Signed by the author on the title page. States 'First Edition' on the copyright page with full numberline 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. 

The book is in very good condition (Clean quarter bound in dark blue and white boards, silver lettering on spine and on front, slight creasing to the spine edges and minor bumping to the corners) with light wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped (slight creasing to the edges and minor rubbing to the corners). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions. 

"Laced with real events and leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty explores the Revolutionary ideas and risks colonists faced in their quest for liberty. Thirteen-year-old Nathaniel Dunn is an indentured servant laboring on a tobacco plantation in colonial Virginia. Life is hard, and its about to get harder when Nathaniel is sold. At that auction, he is separated from his one friend, a teenaged slave named Moses. 

In a twist of luck, Nathaniel meets Basil, a kind, elderly schoolmaster, who brings him to Williamsburg where patriots and loyalists are clashing. An arrangement is struck for Nathaniel to work for an ill-tempered carriage maker loyal to the British in a town increasingly led by patriots such as Thomas Jefferson. The year is 1775. Colonists are enraged by Englands taxation. All around Nathaniel, people are joining the struggle for liberty, spurred on by Patrick Henry's impassioned words, Give me liberty or give me death. Fearful of trouble, Nathaniel avoids taking sides. Gradually, Basils books and music, plus an apprentice named Ben, open Nathaniels mind to daring new attitudes about equality. 

Should he and Basil join the fight? When Ben is hurt in a booby-trap left by British marines in Williamsburgs gunpowder magazine, Nathaniel must make a choice. He becomes a fifer in the 2nd Virginia Regiment. 

But Nathaniels belief in the Revolution is marred by the fact Moses is still in bondage. Moses only chance for liberty is to run away and join the British Royal Ethiopian, a regiment of escaped Virginian slaves. What is the meaning of liberty in a country that depends on slaves and indentured servants? Nathaniel grapples with the choices a dawning nation lays before him and the possibility of facing his closest friend in battle as the American Revolution explodes in Virginia. 

The award-winning author of young adult novels, L.M. Elliotts gripping account captures the hopes and dilemmas of a boy caught up in this crucial turning point in American history." 

376 pages. 

ISBN: 0 06 074421 9 

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