But as an author, he decided early on that he could well do a better job of writing for a growing and distinctly American readership than could his European counterparts. James Fenimore Cooper was an avid reader in an age when most literature in America was imported from England. A RARE TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS GREAT CLASSIC, A TRUE CORNERSTONE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, AND ONE OF THE MOST ELUSIVE OF THE IMPORTANT EARLY AMERICAN LITERARY CREATIONS.
A truly honest copy bound in calf and boards at the time of publication, with wear to the boards and calf backs, boards to Vol.II detached, the usual mellowing to the text-blocks, title-page to Vol.II with a closed tear, a pleasing copy of this monumental American novel, unsophisticated and very rare thus. I has the final "I" at "viii" and page 89 is incorrectly numbered 8vo, bound in the printer's original bindings of calf over blue paper covered boards. II, the first issue points called for are present, Vol. With all the blanks called for including the conjugate for the title-page in Vol. A COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE AND PRESENTATION INSCRIPTIONS DATED JUNE 1826. First Edition, First Issue with BAL's state A of the Copyright page in Vol.
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