[Cooper, James Fenimore].

12mo (199 x 109mm..), 2 volumes, first edition, original paper boards and paper spine labels, uncut, 2 collector's maroon cloth chemises in maroon morocco-backed slipcase, ownership inscription on title of volume 2, some browning or spotting as usual, boards slightly worn at extremities, spines chipped at head and foot

BAL 3833; Grolier, American 34; Spiller and Blackburn 7

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A very good to fine copy in original boards of the author's most popular novel. This copy has the following points: volume one: pagination present on p.71, p.89 misnumbered 93, p.243 reads "XIV" for "XVI", last "i" is not present in pagination on p.vii. The copyright notices read "a Book" in both volumes and the blank conjugate of the title-leaf in volume 2 and the terminal blanks in each volume are present.

Although it was the first to be published, The Last of the Mohicans is the second story in the author's "Leatherstocking" series.