The Pathfinder: or, The Inland Sea
London: Richard Bentley, 1840.
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Hardcover. First edition (preceding the American). Three volumes. Publisher's quarter cloth and papercovered boards with printed paper spine labels. Contemporary owner's name in each volume, some spotting and light staining to the boards, a very good set with some loss to the spine labels. Housed in a custom quarter morocco slipcase. Very scarce in the original publisher's binding.
Item #291867
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