THE DEERSLAYER: or The First War-Path

This book was published by T Nelson & Sons--it is the UK edition, published in 1889.

The boards are a nice dark cherry red, with the title and a design etched into the cover.

The text and design on the spine are bright gold.

There are a couple of minor marks on the covers, and some dark colouring on the spine. Inside, the spine is tight.

There is an unusual lack of shelf wear to the edges of the covers, as if it was stored in a drawer.

Pages 320-323 have a 2" tear from the bottom and will have to be restored.

The pages are darkened, as you would expect from a book of this age, but it is perfectly readable. A lovely old book.

The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero Natty Bumppo. The novel's setting, on Otsego Lake in upstate New York, is the same as that of The Pioneers, the first of the Leatherstocking Tales to be published (1823). The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking Tales.

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