MILLER, PERRY. — Errand Into The Wilderness.

Cambridge, Mass:The Belknap Press, 1956. 1st edition. "What was the underlying aim of the first colonies in coming to America?..Did they consider themselves errand boys for a higher power which might, as is frequently the habit of authority, change its mind about the importance of their job before they had completed it?..This crucial uncertainty of the age is the starting point of Mr Miller's engrossing account of what happened to the European mind when, in spite of itself, it began to become something other than European.." 24cms x 16cms x 1.5cms. Pp.xii/244, gift message and date to front free endpaper. Dark grey cloth, dustwrapper has edge tears and small losses. VG/G.