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[Cooper (James Fenimore)] The Spy; a Tale of the Neutral Ground, 3 vol., first English edition, issued without half-titles, lacks advertisements at end of vol. I, some foxing and browning, vol. I new endpapers, vol. II small worming in margins on front pastedown, front free endpaper and all to F12, front free endpaper, title and some other ff. wormhole repaired, vol. II & III signatures of A. Colvile on front pastedowns (?Andrew Wedderburn Colvile or Colville (1779-1856), governor of the Hudson's Bay Company), contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, rebacked in modern calf, gilt, 12mo, G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822. ⁂ The first English edition of the author's second novel and the first historical romance about the American Revolution.