The Leather-Stocking Tales (In 5 volumes: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Prairie)
by James Fenimore Cooper
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Orange Park, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1872. Book. Very Good +. Cloth. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Five-volume complete set of "Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales, Household Edition." First edition, first printing, with all five title pages dated 1872. Publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering, gilt title blocks with raised lettering and black decoration on spines and black lettering and decoration on front covers. Dark-blue coated endpapers. Each books measures approximately 7 1/8" x 5 1/2" x 1". All books are in VERY GOOD + condition. Bright, clean, tightly bound and square, with no cracking to the hinges. Light wear to the spine ends and corner tips and a few lightly bumped corners. A few minor touches of surface wear on the boards. Gilt on spine is bright. Excellent interiors, except one signature in the center of Mohicans (pages123-142) is slightly loose as one of the five threads is worn. Practically flawless pages. No previous owner markings..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Odysseus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3971
- Title
- The Leather-Stocking Tales (In 5 volumes: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Prairie)
- Author
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Hurd and Houghton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1872
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- collectible, 19th-century, 1st edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; 18th- and 19th-Century Books;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...