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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Covers have a slight damp stain to the rear and three long very slight raised surface ridges. Small split to upper end of front outer hinge. Spine is slightly faded. Spine label has some tiny chips. Pages have scattered spots of foxing, heavier on a few pages. ; Volume Two out of 2, only. BAL 3899.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing, in two volumes. Both title pages dated 1842. Copyright 1842. Publisher's original brown cloth binding with tan paper labels on spines. J. Fagan, stereotyper / I. Ashmead and Co., printer. (3) xii + 236 (2) and (2) 247 (2) pages. Dark-blue cloth-covered custom slipcase with tan cloth title label with dark-blue lettering on spine. GOOD + / VERY GOOD - books in NEAR FINE slipcase. Books show moderate wear and staining to the covers, worn spine ends and corner tips, and worn but intact title labels. Partial cracking to the inner hinges but binding is still sound and all pages secure with no looseness. Pages are moderately foxed. Vol. I has open tears at bottom corners of the front blank pages with increasingly smaller open tears continuing through the first 21 text pages with no loss of text. No other defects to the pages. Previous owner signature on front endpaper of both volumes. Slipcase is strong and sturdy with no cracking and just light wear along the top and bottom edges. No staining or sunning and the title label is unworn.
Seller: Odysseus Books, Orange Park, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1842; Philadelphia; Volume 1 only; 3/4 leather with marbled paper; front board is detached but present; leather is very worn and scuffed; chip at the crown of spine; rear joint is cracked; rear hinge is split; interior is foxed otherwise clean; From the library of ABAA bookseller, Tom Nicely; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; in makeshift box; 207 pages
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Cooper, James. Fenimore. The Two Admirals - Volumes I and II. Lea and Blanchard PA, 1842.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in brown cloth with gilt title on the spine. Two volumes bound together. Volume 1 is 236 pages, volume 2 is 247 pages. A clean tight copy with some minor foxing.
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes bound as one, in contemporary black half leather binding with brown cloth. Former owner bookplate.
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original paper front cover of volume one has cipping to the outer edge and upper outer corner. Otherwise, are modern plain replacements. Vol. 1: Title page is browned, page 11/12 heavily browned. Pages have scattered very slight foxing. Name written on title page. Vol. 2: Pages have scattered slight foxing. ; Two volumes, complete. BAL 3901. Original paper front cover of volume one has been retained - reattached, paper added for repairs to lower corners and a very small hole in the lower portion. In a modern protective slip case.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
[COOPER, James Fenimore]. The Two Admirals. A Tale.. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1842.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 2 vols. 12mo, publisher's purple cloth with printed paper labels on spines. First American edition. Old ink signature at the head of each title page; a few few spots of inoffensive foxing; spines sunned; a very attractive set in original condition.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$352.90 + shipping
Description: Uniform matching first American edition hard back binding in publisher's original re-backed purple muslin covered boards, preserving the original spines, with worn printed paper spine labels. 12mo. 7½'' x 5''. Contains: volume I (xii), 236 pp; volume II: 247 pp. Foxing throughout both volumes, indistinguishable ink name to the top of pp 1 vol. I, small paper label with printed flying ducks to the top front paste down of both volumes, 'James F. Beard Jr. 108 Winifred Avenue, Worcester Massachusetts'. James Franklin Beard was the editor (over six volumes) of 'The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper'. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [Literature]
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
[COOPER, James Fenimore]. The Two Admirals. A Tale. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1842.
Price: US$357.50 + shipping
Description: First printing. 12mo (19cm). Two volumes in original purple muslin, with printed paper spine labels; plain endpapers; vol. I: [i-iv], 9, x-xii, 13-236pp; vol. II: 247pp. Straight and sound, rubbing to endcaps and labels, spines sunned, bookplate remnant to front pastedown of vol. I, minor discoloration to cloth and browning to text; overall Very Good. A nautical novel about the eighteenth-century British Navy. WRIGHT I, 731.BAL 3899. SABIN 16542.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
[Cooper, James Fenimore]. The Two Admirals. A Tale. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1842.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. 2 vols. 12mo. BAL 3899; Sabin 16542; Spiller and Blackburn 33; Wright I, 731 Original purple muslin, printed paper labels. Cloth faded to brown. Pencil signature of Martha Nicely and several practice signatures and doodles in pencil on flyleaf. Shaken, some foxing. Very good. Dark red morocco backed slipcase and chemise
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$715.00 + shipping
Description: [COOPER, James Fenimore]. The Wing-and-Wing, or Le Feu-Follet; A Tale, by the Author of "The Pilot," "Red Rover," "Two Admirals," "Homeward Bound," &c. &c. Bound in contemporary 1/4-morocco and marbled paper over boards with 5-panelled gilt-decorated spine with red morocco gilt-lettered spine label. Phila.: Lea and Blanchard, 1842. Two vols. bound in one. First Edition. BAL 3901. Housed in 1/4 morocco custom slipcases with chemises. Very good.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
[COOPER, James Fenimore]. Two Admirals. A Tale. , 1842.
Price: US$715.00 + shipping
Description: [COOPER, James Fenimore]. The Two Admirals. A Tale. By the Author of "The Pilot," "Red Rover," "Water-Witch," "Homeward Bound," &c. &c. Original cloth, printed paper spine labels, housed in custom brown morocco-backed cloth slipcase, individual inner cloth chemises. Phila.: Lea and Blanchard, 1842. 2 Vols. 12mo. First American edition. BAL 3899. Wright I: 731. Spines lightly sunned, some chipping to labels, light scattered foxing, else a very good set.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE.. The Two Admirals. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1842, 1842.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition; two volumes; publisher's muslin boards with paper spine labels. Bookplates; minor foxing; an excellent set in a custom cloth slipcase with chemises. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.