The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path. A Tale
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1841.
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Hardcover. First edition. Two volumes. Publisher's purple muslin and printed paper spine labels. Attractive leather bookplate of noted collector George Staehle in each volume, slight foxing to the preliminaries, rubbing but no appreciable loss to the spine labels, a handsome very good or better set, housed in a custom quarter morocco slipcase. Very scarce in the original publisher's binding.
Item #291866
James Fenimore Cooper
birth name: James Fenimore Cooper
born: 9/15/1789
died: 9/14/1851
Biography
The first major American novelist, author of the novels of frontier adventure known as The Leather-Stocking Tales. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore