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Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: PHILADELPHIA : 1839. Hardback. Volume 2 of 2. Contemporary brown calf-leather spine and corners; marbled boards. Neat owner name; no internal markings. Quote worn, but strong and sound. Last few pages slightly stained. Well-thumbed. 272 pages. Half title not bound-in. Scarce. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Everyman, Keswick, Inklings, Literature, Rarities, Theology and History. ]
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 394 pages, This is Volume I only of a two volume set. Original cloth binding with a split in the backstrip along one edge. Corners and edges worn. Covers scuffed. Pages foxed in a number of places, but legibility of text is not affected. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Village Booksmith, Hudson Falls, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$112.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 25 cm, 394, v.1 only of the 2-vol. set, map, boards worn and weak, spine chipped, edges worn, some foxing to text.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Cooper, James Fenimore. History of the U.S. Navy. 2 vols.. Lea & Blanchard: Phila., 1839.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 394pp., 482pp. Spines and covers in poor condition. Contents good. Fairly good set of the rare 1st edition.
Seller: Antheil Booksellers, No. Bellmore, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: xxxvi,37-394, [4] pages. Frontis map. Footnotes. Appendix. Cover has wear and soiling. Some foxing noted. This volume has a bookplate indicating that this volume belonged to a group of books from the library of Stuart Miller Crocker, Trustee of Milton Academy, which had been given to the Library of Milton Academy in his memory and that of John F. Crocker, '34, and Frederick S. Barbour, '49, and was subsequently released. Ink notation on fep. James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 - September 14, 1851) was an American writer. His historical romances depicting frontier and Native American life from the 17th to the 19th centuries created a unique form of American literature. He lived much of his life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William Cooper. Cooper served in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman, where he learned the technology of managing sailing vessels which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about espionage set during the American Revolutionary War and published in 1821. His best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period known as the Leatherstocking Tales, which introduced the iconic American frontier scout, Natty Bumppo. Cooper's works on the U.S. Navy have been well received among naval historians. Among his most famous works is The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece. During his career, he published numerous social, political, and historical works of fiction and nonfiction with the objective of nurturing an original American culture. His historical account of the U.S. Navy was well received. Cooper had begun thinking about this massive project in 1824, and concentrated on its research in the late 1830s. His close association with the U.S. Navy and various officers, and his familiarity with naval life at sea provided him the background and connections to research and write this work. Cooper's work is said to have stood the test of time and is considered an authoritative account of the U.S. Navy during that time. Cooper had a keen and considerably academic interest in naval affairs, probably springing in part from his naval service as a young man. This resulted in several minor works and a few major ones, of which this, tracing the American force from pre-Revolutionary origins to the end of the war of 1812, is the most significant. This important work describes all the wars, battles, and sea engagements of American warships from the Revolutionary War and late 18th-century covering the Battle at Tripoli and important battles in the War of 1812.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$239.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pp: xxxvi + 38-394. 6-481. Gilt titles: sp., vol. i. Pasted labe, sp.,l vol. ii Frontpiece (maps). Both volumes, age-toned and foxed throughout. Some damp staining, rear pps., vol. i. Repair to r.e.p, vol. i. Rear crown cor. edges worn, vol. i. Old pencil note, r.p.p., vol. i. Mylar DJ's added. Back strips refurbished and brd. joints tight. Interior leaves are tight. Vol. I includes appendix American Naval history, narrated by the venerable James Fenimore Cooper in two lovely old volumes. Still one of the best works on the early American navy.
Seller: Brillig's Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: In good condition. Rebacked spines, but nicely done. Boards are scuffed along edges and corners. Rubbing to surface of cloth with light fading to spine. Gilt finishing lightly faded. Old hand ownership on tip-in. Interiors are typically age-toned. Moderate foxing scattered throughout each volume. Free of markings. Bindings are tight and intact. A very solid set! Please see photos. First edition of this very popular and oft-reprinted work. Copious and thoughtful material on the major figures in naval history in the colonial and federal periods, conflict with Barbary pirates and the War of 1812.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: With 2 frontispiece maps. Original publisher's cloth, gilt-stamped spine, rebacked with the original backstrips laid down; new endpapers. An excellent copy from the libraries of Arthur Burgett Benton and Irma Peixotto Sellars with their bookplates.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Publisher's original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Signed by James Fenimore Cooper on title page. Very good, with some toning to spine and board edges, boards lightly rubbed, a hint of dampstaining to top left of front board, a bit of wear to spine ends including a small closed tear to head of spine, and some separation to cloth at lower front hinge. Overall, a very nice and solid copy. Isabel, Henry Tuckerman's sole novel, is a travel romance written by the author after spending 1833-34 and 1836-38 in Italy. In addition to Isabel, the Boston-born writer published acclaimed essays, biographies, poems, and sketches. Friends with authors like Herman Melville and Washington Irving, Tuckerman was active in the New York literary world after 1845. He received an order from the King of Italy "in recognition of his labors on behalf of Italian exiles in the United States." This copy of Isabel was owned by the great American author, James Fenimore Cooper. After achieving fame with his novel, The Spy, Cooper commenced writing his renowned Leatherstocking Tales. The series follows Natty Bumppo, a white American living off the land, over five historical novels: The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale (1823), The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826), The Prairie: A Tale (1827), The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea (1840), and The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path (1841). The series examines the effects of settlements expanding and becoming more advanced, within the larger territory of the New American Frontier. The first book in the series, The Pioneers, has been called the "first and finest detailed portrait of frontier life in American literature" and "the first truly original American novel." (Britannica). Cooper lived in Italy from 1828 to 1830 and fell in love with the country's beauty and the Italian way of life. Upon departing from the country, he wrote to his American sculptor friend, Horatio Greenough, "Italy haunts my dreams and clings to my rib like another wife." In 1838 he published Excursions in Italy, a travel narrative based on his experiences there. That year, he wrote to Horatio again, remarking, "My heart is in Italy, and has been ever since I left it. I could wish to die in Italy." Isabel was published the next year, and it is possible that Cooper found some relief for his longing in its pages.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.