The Glasshouse; Jamestown, Virginia, 1608-1957
Jamestown: Privately Printed by Jamestown Glasshouse Foundation, Incorporated, 1957. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 31, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Footnotes. Illustrations. Includes Introduction and Acknowledgments. Chapters include The First Colonists; The First Industry; An Interlude: 1610-1621; and 1931-1957. In honor of the 350th birthday of the United States, The Color Association of the United States, Incorporated, presented the "Jamestown Festival Colors," based on authentic research at Jamestown Island. Included in these six Festival Colors is Glasshouse Green, shown on the cover of this brochure. Henry Hector Bolitho (28 May 1897 – 12 September 1974) was a New Zealand author, novelist and biographer, who had 59 books published. Widely traveled, he spent most of his career in England. Hector Bolitho was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He traveled in the South Sea Islands in 1919 and then through New Zealand with the Prince of Wales in 1920. Bolitho lived in Sydney from 1921 to 1923, where he became editor of the Shakespearean Quarterly and literary editor and drama critic of the Evening News in Sydney. He settled in Britain where he was to remain for the rest of his life. On his arrival in Britain he worked as a freelance journalist. At the start of World War II he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) as an intelligence officer with the rank of squadron leader, editing the Royal Air Force Weekly Bulletin, which in 1941 became the Royal Air Force Journal. In 1942 he was appointed editor of the Coastal Command Intelligence Review. Bolitho undertook several lecture tours of America (in 1938–39, 1947, 1948, and 1949) and he also revisited Australia in later years. More
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