New York: Appleton and Company, 1876. 8vo, pp. x, 515, [3]; engraved frontispiece and additional title page, text illustrations throughout; contemporary green cloth (a bit soiled) stamped in black and gilt, t.e.g, yellow glazed endpapers; general wear to edges and corners, else very good. Spine title: "Cooper's Novels. The Pathfinder". "Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by W.A. Townsend and Company" - title page verso. Reprint of the seventh volume of the first "de luxe" edition, in 32 volumes, of "Cooper's Novels," illustrated by F.O.C. Darley, New York: W.A. Townsend and Company, 1859-1861. "The volumes were evidently issued for sale separately as well as in sets, for there are no half-titles or other indications of the proper shelf order. The set title occurs on the spine only...D. Appleton and Company issued a cheap reprint of the same edition in 1872-1873 and continued to reprint it in various forms...until 1901," Spiller & Blackburn, p. 170-171.

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Bookseller: Rulon-Miller Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 41518
Title: The pathfinder; or, The inland sea
Author: Cooper, J. Fenimore
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Appleton and Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1876
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Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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