Deerslayer First Path Tale by Cooper James (104 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. No Date Listed hardcover book Fair, the pages are clean have aged, binding is holding though is splitting inside front area, no dustjacket issued.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Frontis illus., 7.5 x 5", half blue leather; marbled boards, 512pp, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and worn, spine with vertical cracks beginning to form, pp toned. Decorative leather binding.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

hardcover. Condition: Good. The dust jacket is missing. Hardcover Book, Good condition but not perfect, Cover has minor nicks and tears, spine shows some creases from use. Ask Questions and request photos if your buying for the cover and not the content. Items are uploaded with their own individual photo, but when Multiple Items are for sale only one representative photo may be shown. Actual Photos are availible upon request.…

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: New.

Very good in gilt half-bound cloth, marbled paper.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Deerslayer is the last volume of the five-part Leatherstocking tales, even though it is the beginning of the chronological plot.In the 1740s, the two rangers Henry March and Natty Bumppo, known as the Deerslayer, arrive at Lake Otsego in the state of New York. March comes to visit the former sailor Tom Hutter, who lives in a fortified lake dwelling with his daughters Judith and Hetty. Bumppo wants to meet his friend, the Indian chief Chingachgook, at the lake. Chingachgook suspects that his fiancée Wah-ta!-Wah has been kidnapped by a nearby Mingo tribe.Natty Bumpoo has grown up with Indians and tries to find his way between his origin and the interests of the white people. Despite all efforts he is involved in a deadly fight and has to fear for his life. …

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New edition. Volume I of II only. 12mo. Owner name and bookplate, newspaper clippings laid down on endpapers and last page of preface, underlining and notations on several pages, foxing on pages, boards and text block dampstained, about good only.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Maroonish hardcover with gilt hatchet in hand illustrated on cover. Good condition. The boards have age discolorations. Interior tight and clean. Text is double column per page. Later edition as the first was published in 1841. This novel introduces Natty Bumppo as "Deerslayer": a young frontiersman in early 18th-century New York, who objects to the practice of taking scalps, on grounds that every living thing should follow "the gifts" of its nature, which would keep European Americans from taking scalps. Two characters who actually seek to take scalps are Deerslayer's foil Henry March (alias "Hurry Harry") and the former pirate 'Floating Tom' Hutter, to whom Deerslayer is introduced en route to a rendezvous with the latter's lifelong friend Chingachgook (initially apparent in The Last of the Mohicans). Shortly before the rendezvous, Hutter's residence is besieged by the indigenous Hurons, and Hutter and March sneak into the camp of the besiegers to kill and scalp as many as they can; but are captured in the act, and later ransomed by Bumppo, Chingachgook, and Hutter's daughters Judith and Hetty. Bumppo and Chingachgook thereafter plan to rescue Chingachgook's kidnapped betrothed Wah-ta-Wah (alias 'Hist') from the Hurons; but, in rescuing her, Bumppo is captured. In his absence, the Hurons invade Hutter's home, and Hutter is scalped alive. On his deathbed, he confesses that Judith and Hetty were not his daughters by birth, and Judith determines to discover her natural father's identity; but her search reveals only that her late mother had been of aristocratic descent, and had married 'Floating Tom' after the collapse of an illicit affair. Later, Judith attempts and fails to rescue Deerslayer; and they are all saved at last when March returns with English reinforcements, who massacre the Hurons and mortally wound Hetty. After Hetty's death, Judith proposes marriage to Deerslayer, but is refused, and is last described as the paramour of a soldier. Fifteen years later, Bumppo and Chingachgook return to the site, to find Hutter's house in ruins. 239 pages.…