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Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ink spots on the fore edge and variously in the front pages. Ink spot inside back cover and back back endpaper. 1/2 x 1/8 tear out of two front endpapers. . Spots on covers and rolling from wet papers through pages. X-library but only marks is ink entry on front endpaper "Williamstown Library Price 1.25 No. 598". Published previously in Dresden and London in the fall. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The Country Bookshop [Member VABA], Plainfield, VT, U.S.A.
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Water-Witch or the Skimmer of the Seas. Carey & Lea, Philadelphia, 1831.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Exceptional copy in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, near fine, exhibiting no signs of wear. Bound without ads. Two Volumes, the Dresden and London editions were each published in three volumes.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Water-Witch or The Skimmer of the Seas. Carey & Lea, Philadelphia, 1831.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. [4], 256; 251, [1, blank]pp. 4-pp. publisher's ads dated Sept. 1831 preceding the vol. 1 title. 2 vols. 12mo. The Water Witch was written in Naples and was first printed in Dresden in September 1830, a month before the English edition, and prior to the American edition. BAL records examples of the first Amerian editionwith and without the ads preceding the title in vol. 1, and with ads of varying dates from November 1830 to September 1831 (as here). BAL 3847 Publisher's boards, spines perished with only a small remnant of the vol. 2 spine with lettering. A2 in vol. 1 torn and stitched together at an early date [4], 256; 251, [1, blank]pp. 4-pp. publisher's ads dated Sept. 1831 preceding the vol. 1 title. 2 vols. 12mo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Water-Witch. Carey & Lea, Philadelphia, 1831.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Water-Witch by James Fenimore Cooper. Two volumes. First American edition in modern ¾ leather and marbled paper. Publisher: Carey & Lea, Philadelphia, 1831. Without the catalog but with "mnch" for much on page 3, 1 of volume two. Bindings as new. Contents clean, paper toned with age and occasional spots of foxing. 256, 251 pages. 4 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches. Paper spine label. BAL 3847. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #C-393. Price: $500.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1831. First Edition. BAL 3847, without catalog and with "mnch" for "much" on page 3, line 1, of volume two. Two volumes in one. 7"x4.25"; v1 256 pp., v2 251 pp. Half calf with marbled boards, black morocco spine label. Boards show moderate scuff and corner bumps. Light foxing throughout, inked names at top of title page of volume two. Just a bit short Very Good by technical standards, but it faces up substantially better. Handsome. See scans. First American edition of James Fenimore Cooper's tale of Tom Tiller, the bold and kind smuggler, a sympatico outlaw who represented an America ideal of the time - bucking the system against the commerce-controlling British. Scarce state. L14n
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 2 vols. 12mo, publisher's original pale blue boards with white paper backstrips and printed paper labels on spines. First American edition. BAL 3847, with the inserted catalogue at the front of Vol. I with the Nov. 1830 date. 19thc. bookseller's ticket on front pastedown in Vol. I; old ink signature at the head of each title page; light and inoffensive foxing to portions of the text; some chipping to the extremities of the paper backstrip to Vol. II; nevertheless a beautiful example of original condition.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
[COOPER, James Fenimore]. Water-Witch, or the Skimmer of the Seas. A Tale. , 1831.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Description: [COOPER, James Fenimore]. The Water-Witch, or the Skimmer of the Seas. A Tale; by the Author of The Pilot, Red Rover, &c. &c. &c. Contemporary full speckled calf, gilt-decorated spines, black morocco spine labels, housed in custom cloth slipcase. Phila.: Carey & Lea, 1831. 2 Vols. 12mo. First American edition. BAL 3847. Wright I: 734. Bookplate of William W. Fisher. Outer hinges of Vol. One starting, some wear to spine ends, light toning to exterior leaves in Vol. Two, else a very good set.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$934.87 + shipping
Description: In two volumes. First edition, later issue with the spine label reading "Novels and Tales by the Author of the Spy, Vol. XVII (and XVIII respectively). 8vo., orig. rust cloth spines, pale green paper boards, printed spine labels, vi, (7)-256; 252pp. WIthout the adverts in volume one. Some foxing throughout, boards a bit soiled, some of wear to spine ends and rear gutters of both volumes but this is still a better than very good but not quite near fine copy. BAL 3847 for first issue. The pagination and titlepage conforms to that given by BAL 3847, the only indication of the later edition is the spine labels and the binding which does not conform with those given by BAL.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada