COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea 1826. 2 vols., 8vo , ORIGINAL DRAB BOARDS, PRINTED PAPER SPINE LABELS, UNCUT, some minor wear at extremities, in two elaborate dark blue morocco gilt felt-lined folding cases. FIRST EDITION; Vol. I: folio present at p. 71, "i" not present in folio vii; Vol. II: the blank leaf following title is present, State A of copyright notice. Spiller and Blackburn 7; BAL 3833; Grolier American 34; Joan St. C. Crane and J.F. Beard, The Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper. An Exhibition...from the Clifton Waller Barret Library, April-June 1974 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Library, 1974), 6a: "The second of the Leather-stocking Tales and second in story chronology. Natty Bumppo was introduced as an old man in The Pioneers (1823), died in The Prairie (1827). Between these two, in The Last of the Mohicans he is shown as a young man approaching the zenith of his skill as a wilderness hunter and scout during the French and Indian Wars. In this best known novel of the saga, Natty as Hawkeye develops into the epic hero of American literature." A REMARKABLY FINE COPY AND VERY RARE IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Provenance : Edith Barbara Trantor, bookplate. H. Bradley Martin bookplate (sale, Sotheby's New York, 30 January 1990, lot 2013). (2)
COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea 1826. 2 vols., 8vo , ORIGINAL DRAB BOARDS, PRINTED PAPER SPINE LABELS, UNCUT, some minor wear at extremities, in two elaborate dark blue morocco gilt felt-lined folding cases. FIRST EDITION; Vol. I: folio present at p. 71, "i" not present in folio vii; Vol. II: the blank leaf following title is present, State A of copyright notice. Spiller and Blackburn 7; BAL 3833; Grolier American 34; Joan St. C. Crane and J.F. Beard, The Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper. An Exhibition...from the Clifton Waller Barret Library, April-June 1974 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Library, 1974), 6a: "The second of the Leather-stocking Tales and second in story chronology. Natty Bumppo was introduced as an old man in The Pioneers (1823), died in The Prairie (1827). Between these two, in The Last of the Mohicans he is shown as a young man approaching the zenith of his skill as a wilderness hunter and scout during the French and Indian Wars. In this best known novel of the saga, Natty as Hawkeye develops into the epic hero of American literature." A REMARKABLY FINE COPY AND VERY RARE IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Provenance : Edith Barbara Trantor, bookplate. H. Bradley Martin bookplate (sale, Sotheby's New York, 30 January 1990, lot 2013). (2)
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