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Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Lionel Lincoln; Or, The Leaguer of Boston. In Two Volumes. By James Fenimore Cooper and printed in New York City by Charles Wiley. 1825, 2 volumes, 263 and 270 pp, 7.25 x 4.5, 8vo, partially reinforced full leather. In fair condition, with reinforcing rudimentary and only partially successful. Rubbing and wear to boards. Chipping and loss to spines, including at head and heel. Some cracking and looseness to reinforced front hinges. Light markigns and marginalia, including bookplates at front of each volume. Text blocks remain bound well. Title page of Volume II dated 1824 instead of 1825. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce 1st edition set of the work by James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851). His first attempt at historical fiction, the novel was part of an attempted 13-part collection, but both Cooper and critics were generally unfavorable towards the book. Owned by John Markoe (1781-1834), a wealthy Philadelphia merchant who constructed a mansion on Chestnut Street in the early 19th Century. COLL1825CIJQ
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 volumes in original bindings, with leather spines and corners, marbled paper over boards. Gold rules on the spine, and lettering in two of the panels. Some minor chips to surface of leather on hinges, shelfwear to marbled paper over boards, as you'd expect. Bindings tight and square. Attractive bookplates on the inside front covers with the name Charles Walker Andrews. Half title page has 'Legends of the Thirteen Republics'. Title page 'Lionel Lincoln'. Volume 1 dated 1825. Volume 2 dated 1825. The name on an early owner signed on the half-title and title pages, 'M. A. Winthrop.' This is an early copy of the first printing, with all the correct publication points for the earliest printings. Signature mark and complete lettering on page 121 of volume 2. Cooper intended this to be the first of a series of 13 novels, but this is as far as he ever got. 263 and 270 pages. Some foxing commensurate with its age. Overall good condition. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that its an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$278.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 2 volumes: xii, 263 p.; 270 p.; 18 cm. 19th-century tree calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules. Two red morocco spine labels in middle compartments with gilt-tooled series title, Cooper's Novels, and title, Lionel Lincoln. Vol. 2 dated 1824. This is from an earlier part of the print run, as the signature 11 is present on page [121] of vol. 2, along with the letter n in the word "opinion" directly above the signature mark (both of which disappeared during the course of the print run -- see BAL 3832). Leaf preceding title page in each volume bears title: Legends of the Thirteen Republics. Cooper had planned for Lionel Lincoln to be the first in a series of 13 historical novels called Legends of the Thirteen Republics, but the unenthusiastic reception led to his abandonment of the plan. Faintly at the head of both title pages: Jno. Hart. Cooper set this somewhat Gothic novel in Boston in 1775 at the beginning of the American Revolution. In Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; vol. 1 front joint is weak; loss of leather at head of vol. l spine and minimally on back joint; minor scrapes on both back boards; upper corner of first 3 leaves of vol. 2 creased; foxing throughout both volumes; otherwise pages are clean and tight.
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volumes bound in contemporary half brown leather with black label & gilt lettering and decoration on spine over mabled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Vol I is dated 1825 [xii, 263pp] and Vol II is dated 1824 [270pp]. Half title page in each volume bears title: "LEGENDS OF THE THIRTEEN REPUBLICS". "In Two Volumes" appears on the title page in VOLUME 1 only, VOLUME #2 : there is no "The" before "Pioneers" in the title page, Page 96 is mispaginated "56", at the bottom of page 121 "opinion" and the signature mark "11" are present (indicating that this was one of the earlier copies in the print run) . Condition: text/binding tight & intact, moderate foxing & age toning, covers/edges lightly scuffed, small piece missing from corner at bottom of p-1 & top of p-257 in vol 1. Literature, Massachusetts, American Revolution. ; Thick 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 533 pages
Seller: Nick Bikoff, IOBA, Fairfield, NJ, U.S.A.
COOPER James Fenimore. Lionel Lincoln; or, The Leaguer of Boston. , 1825.
Price: US$347.83 + shipping
Description: First edition. Two volumes. 12mo. xii, 263, [1]; 270 pp. With the 'Legends of the Thirteen Republics' half titles. Early twentieth century dark green morocco, spines with five single raised bands, second, third, and fourth panels lettered in gilt, top edges in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. New York, Charles Wiley. An historical novel, set during the American Revolutionary War. Preceding Cooper?s classic, The Last of the Mohicans, Lionel Lincoln has been criticised for being too historically accurate. Cooper had planned for it to be the first in a series of novels portraying the part each of the colonies played in the Revolution. However, the novel was a flop, and he would later reflect in the preface to the 1837 edition : ?Perhaps there is no other country, whose history is so little adapted to poetical illustration as that of the United States of America. The art of printing has been in general use since the earliest settlement and the policy of both the Provinces and the States has been to encourage the dissemination of accurate knowledge. There is consequently neither a dark, not even an obscure, period in the American annals: all is not only known, but so well and generally known, that nothing is left for the imagination to embellish.? ?The novel abounds in documentary data: battles are charted, and sieges described with a tactician?s care; the geography of colonial Boston is painstakingly rendered; costumes are drawn precisely; even the weather is accurately recalled. Under the weight of such regard for historical veracity and detail Cooper?s fiction simply collapsed.? (Steinbrink). Engraved bookplates of Roderick Terry to front pastedowns of both volumes. Occasional browning throughout both volumes, some light wear to extremities of bindings, otherwise a very good set. BAL, 3832. James Fenimore Cooper, Lionel Lincoln or the Leaguer of Boston, 1837. Jeffrey Steinbrink, ?James Fenimore Cooper and the Limits of History? in Historical Reflections.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Volume 1: 1825. Full leather, rubbed and worn on corners and edges. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Lacking front endpaper and pages after 238. Scribbling and doodling , water staining and foxing. Page edges are toned and worn. Second copy of Volume 1:1825. Brown boards, leather spine. Label is chipped, edges worn. Covers are rubbed, some ink stains. Notations on endpapers. Foxing, wear, toning etc. Pages 147-154 loose at top and bottom of spine. Tear on top of front endpaper. 263 pages. Volume 2 1824 has green board, brown leather on spine. Edges are worn. Notations and staining on endpapers and pages, some scribbling on margins. Binding is tight. 270 pages. An oddly mixed set with its issues, but first printings of this scarce title.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, probable early issue (signature 11 present in vol. II). Half title " Legends of the Thirteen Republics " present in vol. I; vol. II bound without half title. 2 vols. 12mo. Wright I 631; BAL 3832; Spiller & Blackburn 6 Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Some rubbing, moderate foxing. Joint of vol. II a little tender, else very good Half title " Legends of the Thirteen Republics " present in vol. I; vol. II bound without half title. 2 vols. 12mo First Edition, probable early issue (signature 11 present in vol. II).
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Cooper, James Fenimore. Lionel Lincoln; or, The Leaguer of Boston. New York: Charles Wiley, 1825.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes. Original drab boards, printed paper labels, untrimmed. Wear to boards, browning, inner hinges repaired, losses to paper labels. A rare survival in original boards. First American edition, fine and untrimmed in original boards, of Cooper s historical novel of the American Revolution. Cooper conceived of Lionel Lincoln as the first in a series of thirteen historical novels the Legends of the Thirteen Republics, as the often-lacking half-titles style it. Writing to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the beginnings of the American Revolution, Cooper visited Boston in 1824 to study buildings and terrain, visit battlefields, and consult primary sources. George Bancroft declared that in Lionel Lincoln Cooper had described the battle of Bunker Hill better than it is described in any other work.
Seller: 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop, Stevenson, MD, U.S.A.