Deerslayer First War Path by Cooper, First Edition (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing Thus. Very Good in slightly rubbed slipcase. Spine slightly sunned and faded else a clean and tight copy.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Multiple copies available this title. Library of America series. Book comes in its original slipcase. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0940450216. ISBN/EAN: 9780940450219. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23006.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: EPIC: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover(Orig. 1985) Ninth Printing (c. 2016), NEW LOA slipcase w/ double-gilt-ruled borders framing centered LOA logo on front panle & w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW British-green silk-finish Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, SUPERB white-on-green Library of America patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ green-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & green silk page-marker ribbon, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free lightweight opaque archival paper * 5.00" x 8.12" x 1.32", 0.68 kg, 1051 pp. W/ slipcase: 5.32" x 8.48" x 1.50", 0.68 kg * CONTENTS: The Pathfinder: or, The Inland Sea (1); The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path (483); Chronology (1031), Note on the Texts (1044), Notes (1049) * ABOUT THE BOOK: When Cooper's most memorable hero, Leatherstocking, started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset in 'The Pioneers', one early reader said of his departure, "I longed to go with him." American readers couldn't get enough of the Leatherstocking saga (collected in two Library of America volumes) &, 14 years after he portrayed the death of Natty Bumppo in 'The Prairie', Cooper brought him back in 'The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea' (1841). During the Seven Years War, just after the events narrated in 'The Last of the Mohicans', Natty brings the daughter of a British sergeant to her father's station on the Great Lakes, where the French & their Indian allies are plotting a treacherous ambush. Here, for the first time, he falls in love with a woman, before Cooper manages bring off Leatherstocking's most poignant, & perhaps his most revealing, escape. 'The Deerslayer' (1842) brings the saga full circle & follows the young Natty on his first warpath. Instinctively gifted in the arts of the forest, pious in his respect for the unspoiled wilderness on which he loves to gaze, honorable to friend & foe alike, stoic under torture, & cool under fire, the young Leatherstocking emerges as Cooper's noblest figure of the American frontier. Enacting a rite of passage both for its hero & for the culture he comes to represent, this last book in the series glows with a timelessness that readers everywhere will find enchanting. * ABOUT THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA: The Library of America is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the U.S. w/ Domestic USPS PRIORITY MAIL available for a nominal additional fee & shipment of all international orders via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson (illustrator). First Thus. In ivory cloth with pictorial upper cover, gilt and green titling. A collector's edition housed in publisher's slipcase). Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Condition: Fine. (New York): The Library of America, (1985)., (1985). Fine. - Octavo, 8 inches high by 5 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in green cloth titled in gilt on the spine in a cream paper covered slipcase. [10], 1,051 & [5] pages. Near fine. First printing.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Introduction and notes by James Franklin Beard. First edition thus. As new in like dust jacket. Still in original shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition thus. Octavo. 1,051pp. Fine in lightly worn, very near fine dust jacket. Library of America, Volume 27.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. A fine full-color illustration pasted inset to the front cover of this fine-looking, sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover copy of a Heritage Press title, being a First Edition Thus. Clean, bright, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, having been preserved well in a Good condition, paper-covered cardboard slipcase. Beautiful oatmeal cloth over boards, fine illustration of a deer and a rifle and a hunter's accoutrements inset at front panel cut-out. From a collection of three dozen Heritage Press titles that belonged to an Eastern Washington professional botanist. Complete with the Sandglass newsletter. The Heritage Press operated from 1937 - 1982 and was created by George Macy, who managed with editors the reprinting of volumes from the Limited Editions Club, thus enabling fine printing exemplars to trickle down to a broader public still thirsty, newly thirsty, for classic nineteenth-century novels and biographies. James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel is Introduced by John T. WInterich, and with lovely duotone and full-color illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. xiv [3], 4-510 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: FAIR. First Edition Thus. Unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket. Dust jacket is soiled, chipped, with edge tears and a recent thrify store sticker attached at front. Jacket has protected the black cloth boards which has the DJ's front artwork fixed to the front cover so one could do without tattered DJ. Pictorial endpapers. First in the series Leatherstocking Tales with Natty Bumppo. Written last in the series, the time period places it as first installment. First pages and endpapers are discolored with foxing. Top edges are tinted brown.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. No date listed, but the author lived from 1789-1851. Probable first edition. The red binding with gold lettering has some fraying, and light wear at the corners and edges, and at the head and tail of the spine. The interior is very clean and tight. 512 pgs.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. #746 of 1500 copies made, signed by illustrator at colophon. Hand colored illustrations. Tan deer hide leather spine over marbled paper-covered boards, within beige paper-covered slipcase, 10-3/4" x 7-1/4". Newsletter laid in. Minor toning to spine panel, light wear to slipcase. A lovely edition of a classic of American literature. Extra postage required for priority or international shipping. Signed by Illustrator(s).

, Hardcover/Pappeinband. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 573 Seiten Hardcover-Exemplar ohne Schutzumschlag für sein Alter in sehr gutem Zustand. Das Tiefdruck-Frontispiz reproduziert Illustrationen von F.T. Richards. Vergoldeter Papierrand und auf dem Rücken gedruckter Titel. "The Deerslayer is the last book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy, but acts as a prequel to the other novels. It begins with the rapid civilizing of New York, in which surrounds the following books take place. It introduces the hero of the Tales, Natty Bumppo, and his philosophy that every living thing should follow its own nature. He is contrasted to other, less conscientious, frontiersmen." Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1206.

First Edition. First edition thus. Hardcover. 510 pages. Number 1332 from an edition of 1500 copies. Features an introduction by John T. Winterich. Includes attractive illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. A fine copy copy in marbled paper covered boards with leather spine in a near fine slipcase with some minor wear and with laid in newsletter for the Limited Editions Club. No dust jacket. Signed by Edward A. Wilson on the colophon page. Signed.

Condition: As New. First Edition. First Printing stated. The subscription issue. A Very Fine copy in dark green cloth, in a Very Fine cream paper covered slipcase. 1051pp. with Chronology and Note on the Texts by the Editor of the volume, Blake Nevius. Q16373 Hardcover in publisher's slipcase.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good+ in boards. Toning and light shelfwear on spine. Light foxing on front panel.

Hard Cover / Slipcase. Condition: Fine. N. C. Wyeth (illustrator). First Thus, Limited/Numbered. (1925) Brwn cloth box & bdg, book cover color plate paste-down, silk ribbon marker, gilt top edge, all in mint, as new cond; illus eps, 9 color plates & frontispiece, 462 pp.#101 of 150 copies. Beginning in 1981 Scribner's, pub of the Children's Illustrated Classics series, began to reprint those illustrated by N.C. Wyeth, releasing one each year. They returned to the orginal art work, making new transparencies of each illustration, creating new fresh & bright images. Each year a deluxe boxed edition was produced, numbered, with ribbon marker, & printed on paper meeting the Council on Library Resources standards for permanence & durability. Check our listings for others in the series, RB3212-RB3225. Size: 7.5"-10". Limited.

Insgesamt 128 + 8 Seiten Verlagsanzeigen mit zahlreichen Abbildungen auch in Farbe. Inhalt: Eine gelungene Bearbeitung des Klassikers der Indianer- Literatur von Friedrich Meister, Seeoffizier, Schriftsteller, geboren 1848 Baruth, gestorben 1918 Berlin, fuhr 10 Jahre zur See. Er schrieb See- und Kolonialerzählungen, bearbeitete klassische Abenteuerromane und verfasste auch einige frühe Science Fiktion Geschichten. Der Maler und Illustrator Eduard Klingebeil, geboren am 23. März 1863 in Neuchatel (Schweiz) ging 1878 zur See und widmete sich erst der Kunst, nachdem er infolge Unfalls den Seemannsberuf aufgegeben musste. (Siehe Thieme- Becker XX, Seite 509). Zustand: Einband leicht berieben und angestaubt, Ecken und Kanten wenig bestoßen. Innen: Seiten teilweise fingerfleckig und gebräunt, Buchblock minimal schief- gelesen, sonst recht ordentlich erhalten. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1050 8°(Oktav- Format bis 22,5 cm.) Rubin- roter Original- Ganzleinen- Einband mit schwarz- silbern- geprägter Rücken- und Vorderdeckel- Beschriftung, sowie eine schwarz- geprägte Zeichnung von E. Klingebeil, als Deckel- Illustration, marmorierter Buchschnitt und gelb- braun- illustrierte Vor- und Nachsätze. Erstausgabe dieser Auflage, gedruckt in Leipzig bei Metzger & Wittig.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition thus. Notes by Blake Nevius. Two volume set. Octavos. 1,347pp., 1,051pp. Green cloth. Pages edges lightly soiled, near fine in near fine age-toned dust jacket. The Library of America Series, Volumes 26 and 27.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edward Wilson (illustrator). 1st Edition, Limited Edition. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Numbered #1091 of 1500 limited edition copies. Illustrated with 30 pen-and-wash drawings by Edward Wilson and 15 drawings in black line. Introduction by John F. Winterich. 544 pp. Excellent in a Very Good slipcase. "A restless white youth raised by Indians, Natty Bumppo is called Deerslayer for the daring that sets him apart from his peers. But he has yet to meet the test of human conflict. In a tale of violent action and superbly sustained suspense, the harsh realities of tribal warfare force him to kill his first foe, then face torture at the stake. Still yet another kind of initiation awaits him when he discovers not only the ruthlessness of "civilized" men, but also the special danger of a woman's will. His reckless spirit transformed into mature courage and moral certainty, the Deerslayer emerges to face life with nobility as pure and proud as the wilderness whose fierce beauty and freedom have claimed his heart.". Signed by Illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 512 pages. Frontispiece. Footnotes. Preface to the Leather-stocking Tales. Preface. Marbled cover and endpapers. Spine and corners in leather. Cover is worn and soiled. Spine is worm, torn and chipped. James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune. He lived much of his boyhood and his last 15 years in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William Cooper on property that he owned. He attended Yale University for three years, where he was a member of the Linonian Society. Cooper served in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman, where he learned the technology of managing sailing vessels, which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about espionage set during the American Revolutionary War and published in 1821. He also created American sea stories. His best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period, written between 1823 and 1841, known as the Leatherstocking Tales, which introduced the iconic American frontier scout, Natty Bumppo. Cooper's works on the U.S. Navy have been well received among naval historians. The Last of the Mohicans is often regarded as his masterpiece. During his career, he published numerous social, political, and historical works of fiction and nonfiction, with the objective of countering European prejudices and nurturing an original American art and culture. The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path was James Fenimore Cooper's fifth and last novel published in 1841 in his Leatherstocking Tales. Its 17401745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. The novel's setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of The Pioneers, the first of the Leatherstocking Tales to be published (1823). The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking Tales. 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 the 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 (who first appeared as "Indian John" in The Pioneers). Shortly before the rendezvous, Hutter's residence is besieged by the Hurons, and Hutter and March sneak into the camp of the besiegers to kill and scalp as many as they can, but they 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 while rescuing her, Bumppo is captured. In his absence, the Hurons attack 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 from the Hurons. They are all saved at last when March returns with British troops, who ambush the Hurons and kill most of them; Hetty is mortally wounded in the confusion. 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. In Carl Van Doren's view, the book is essentially a romance, at the same time considerably realistic. The dialect is careful, the wordcraft generally sound. The movement is rapid, the incidents varied, and the piece as a whole absorbing. The reality of the piece comes chiefly from the reasoned presentation of the central issue: the conflict in Leather-Stocking between the forces which draw him to the woods and those which seek to attach him to his human kind. Van Doren calls Judith Hutter one of the few convincing young women in Cooper's works; of the minor characters only the ardent young Chingachgook and the silly Hetty Hutter call for his notice. D. H. Lawrence called The Deerslayer "one of the most beautiful and perfect books in the world: flawless as a jewel and of gem-like concentration. In 1878 Mr. Lovell came to New York City and entered upon his publishing career, soon achieving success. He had an office for many years at 14 Vesey Street. In 1882 he formed the John W. Lovell Company, of which he was president. He founded Lovell's Library, which published millions of copies of works by such authors as Cooper, Ruskin, Dickens, Thackeray, Shakespeare and Carlyle. Mr. Lovell had the distinction of being the first American publisher of Kipling and Barrie. Among other noted authors whose work be published were Mrs. Humphry Ward, Ouida, and H. Rider Haggard. In his heyday he estimated that he was selling 7,000,000 copies of books yearly. It was not unusual for him to have more than 4,000 titles on hand. Gradually Mr. Lovell's interests expanded, He founded or help found a number of subsidiary firms, which finally, in 1889, was absorbed into the United States Book Company, which he served as vice president and also as president. Among the subsidiary concerns were the.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Two volumes. 267, [1, blank]; 282 pages. Hardcovers, bound in contemporary purple muslin with printed paper labels. The bindings are well rubbed with discoloration and stains, spine ends frayed. Bookplate and prior owner signature on the pastedown. Volume I lacks the fly leaves and preliminary blanks. Scattered foxing.

Hardback. Two volumes complete in brown cloth, paper title labels on spine, 8vo. 267, 282 pp. First edition, in original publishers cloth, of the fifth, and last, in the series of works by Cooper portraying Natty Bumpo (in this work as a young man), the most popular of which was "The Last of the Mohicans". Owner's name front pastedown and top of title page each volume, light moisture stain last few pages of volume I and volume II. Minor foxing. Covers show edge and corner wear, 1/2" tear rear joint at top of volume I, rear cover of volume I shows light moisture damage. Bindings tight. J. Fagan, stereotyper, I . Ashmead, printer, listed on copyright page of each volume. Paper title labels scuffed and chipped, but readable. Book condition Good. Binding: HB.

2 vols. 12mo. First edition. First edition. 2 vols. 12mo. The last of Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" of Natty Bumpo in the American wilderness to be published, although it is the first in the sequence. Set on Ostego Lake in upstate New York, Natty Bumpo is depicted as a young man against the practise of scalping. A very desirable copy of this classic of American fiction. BAL 3895; Spiller and Blackburn 32; Wright I 601; SABIN16430 Bound in blue morocco by Bennett, N.Y. Fine.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Duodecimo. A beautiful 1st Edition of one of the greatest American novels, from the first notable American prose author, complete in two volumes. 'The Deerslayer', published in 1841, was the fifth and last installment of his famed 'Leatherstocking Tales' series, though its storyline is the first chronologically, set in the 1740s before the outbreak of the French and Indian War. "The novel's setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of The Pioneers, the first of the Leatherstocking Tales to be published (1823). The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking Tales." - wiki Original purple muslin, with original printed paper labels on spines. Duodecimo. Bindings tight, with volume II having a slight lean to spine. Sporadic fixing and minor spotting as usual. Mild rubbing and edge wear to bindings with spines somewhat age toned. paper labels with some scuffing, but quite legible. Inside rear fly leaf torn out and outside rear fly leaf with a chip at lower fore edge corner. Previous owner name in 19th-century ink to each front prelim. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with the Fagan-Ashmead imprint on the verso of each title-page. BAL 3895; Sabin 16430; Spiller and Blackburn 32. From the Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York "one of the most beautiful and perfect books in the world: flawless as a jewel and of gem-like concentration." - D.H. Lawrence.