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Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Publisher's plum muslin with original printed paper title label to spine. Overall moderately soiled, spotted and rubbed; title label is quite rubbed and a little chipped; spine faded to brown; a few tiny holes and splits along joints. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped and frayed. A few small holes also to hinges. Binding a little tender towards rear but mostly sound. Text clean. Interior lightly toned and foxed. Armorial bookplate with the name "Walter Cary" to front pastedown. Not ex-library. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 282 pages
Seller: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes complete in brown cloth, paper title labels on spine, 8vo. 267, 282 pp. First edition, in original publishers cloth, of the fifth, and last, in the series of works by Cooper portraying Natty Bumpo (in this work as a young man), the most popular of which was "The Last of the Mohicans". Owner's name front pastedown and top of title page each volume, light moisture stain last few pages of volume I and volume II. Minor foxing. Covers show edge and corner wear, 1/2" tear rear joint at top of volume I, rear cover of volume I shows light moisture damage. Bindings tight. J. Fagan, stereotyper, I . Ashmead, printer, listed on copyright page of each volume. Paper title labels scuffed and chipped, but readable. Book condition Good. Binding: HB
Seller: Parker's Rare Books, Ontario, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Two volumes. 267, [1, blank]; 282 pages. Hardcovers, bound in contemporary purple muslin with printed paper labels. The bindings are well rubbed with discoloration and stains, spine ends frayed. Bookplate and prior owner signature on the pastedown. Volume I lacks the fly leaves and preliminary blanks. Scattered foxing.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [3], viii-xi, [2], 14-267; [3], 6-282 pp. 2 vols. 12mo. The last of Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales"and Natty Bumpo in the American wilderness, although it is the first in terms of sequence - Natty Bumpo is here depicted as a young man. An unsophisticated copy of this classic of American fiction This copy is inscribed, To James S. Leeds,/ from his fellow citizen/ W.P. Hamilton/ in grateful acknowledgement/ of one out of numberless/ kindnesses./ October 3rd, 1910." William Peter Hamilton was the editor of the Wall Street Journal and author of The Stock Market Barometer and also wrote for Barron's. He worked closely with Charles H. Dow, founder of the Journal, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the Dow Jones financial news service. BAL 3895; Spiller and Blackburn 32; Wright I, 601 Original purple muslin, printed paper labels. Spines faded, dampstain to lower half of vol. I text block, front free endpaper replaced with leaf inscribed from Wall Street Journal editor W.P. Hamilton [3], viii-xi, [2], 14-267; [3], 6-282 pp. 2 vols. 12mo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3025.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Duodecimo. "one of the most beautiful and perfect books in the world: flawless as a jewel and of gem-like concentration." - so D.H. Lawrence described 'The Deerslayer'. A beautiful 1st Edition set of one of the greatest American novels, from the first notable American prose author. 2 volumes complete. Original purple muslin, with original printed paper labels on spines , 12mo. Bindings tight, with volume II having a slight lean to spine. Some minor spotting as usual. Mild rubbing and edge wear to bindings with spines somewhat age toned. paper labels with some scuffing, but quite legible. Previous owner name in 19th-century ink to each front prelim. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with the Fagan-Ashmead imprint on the verso of each title-page. BAL 3895; Sabin 16430; Spiller and Blackburn 32. From the Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York.
Seller: Vintage Books and Fine Art, Oxford, MD, U.S.A.