Cooper, James Fenimore]. The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path. A Tale. By the Author of "The Last of the Mohicans" .. Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1841.

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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

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