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Auction archive: Lot number 145

Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper, 1826

Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$43,750
Auction archive: Lot number 145

Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper, 1826

Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$43,750
Beschreibung:

Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper, 1826 [COOPER, James Fenimore. (1789-1851).] The Last of the Mohicans. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. First edition, a lovely copy. The Last of the Mohicans was the second in Cooper's Leatherstocking series although it was the first to be published. With page 89 mispaginated 93 and on p. 243 xiv for xvi; copyright notices in volume 2 in State A. BAL 3833; Spiller & Blackburn 7. Two volumes, 12mo (186 x 113mm). Uncut (foxing internally; two-inch tear to margin of p.285). Original boards, paper labels (vol 1: joint cracked, chipping to spine label; vol 2: a little chipping along spine). Provenance: J. W. Huntington (ownership inscription to title) – Henry Walker and Nancy Reynolds Bagley (bookplate).

Auction archive: Lot number 145
Auction:
Datum:
14 Sep 2021
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
Beschreibung:

Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper, 1826 [COOPER, James Fenimore. (1789-1851).] The Last of the Mohicans. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. First edition, a lovely copy. The Last of the Mohicans was the second in Cooper's Leatherstocking series although it was the first to be published. With page 89 mispaginated 93 and on p. 243 xiv for xvi; copyright notices in volume 2 in State A. BAL 3833; Spiller & Blackburn 7. Two volumes, 12mo (186 x 113mm). Uncut (foxing internally; two-inch tear to margin of p.285). Original boards, paper labels (vol 1: joint cracked, chipping to spine label; vol 2: a little chipping along spine). Provenance: J. W. Huntington (ownership inscription to title) – Henry Walker and Nancy Reynolds Bagley (bookplate).

Auction archive: Lot number 145
Auction:
Datum:
14 Sep 2021
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
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