The Pathfinder or The Inland Sea

Leather-Stocking Edition. 'Limited to 1000 Copies'. This one is 'No. 375'. No date of publication. This sale is for only the one volume. The volume is part of 'The Complete Works of J. Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking Edition in Thirty-Two Volumes.' You can see the covers in the photos. There are some small scuffs at the top and bottom edges of the spine. There's also a scuff over what would have been the 'E' and part of the 'R' in Pathfinder on the spine. The cover edges are in solid shape. The cover corners have small spots of rub-through. The top page edge is gilt. It looks very good. The spine has a moderate forward lean. The binding is quite solid with nicely, tightly bound pages throughout. The covers are nicely, tightly bound. The interior of the book is in very decent condition. Scrolling through, I found only a very occasional small spot of soiling at a margin. There are two exceptions: two facing pages that have more significant soiling, though none of it touches the print, and but the top edge of one page there is a fair spot, although it also does not reach the print. I found three small edge tears, none reaching the print. I also found one or two instances of a teeny tiny edge loss. Finally, there is a very thin horizontal crinkle off the top edge of most of the pages, nothing much of anything to my eye, looks like a thin line of toning. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. There is a black and white frontispiece protected by a red-captioned tissue guard, also a small illustration on the title page. Both are in excellent condition. 'The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is a historical novel by American author James Fenimore Cooper, first published in 1840. It is the fourth novel Cooper wrote featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and the third chronological episode of the Leather-stocking Tales. The inland sea of the title is Lake Ontario. It is the only book in the Leather-stocking series to show Natty Bumppo in love, and the first of Cooper's books which made important imaginative use of the Great Lakes.'. …