[COOPER JAMES FENIMORE] The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative

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[COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE.] The Last of the Mohicans. A Narrative of 1757. 2 volumes. 12mo, 19th-century full navy morocco by Riviere, gilt-paneled covers, cornerpieces, spines elaborately tooled in gilt in 6 compartments, minor rubbing to joints, front joint of Volume I partly cracked, top edges gilt, others uncut; inner dentelles; internally clean and free from foxing. Philadelphia: Carey & I. Lea, 1826

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first edition, first issue. tall copy with the following points: in Volume I, the pagination is not present on p. 71 (sequence not determined), p. 89 is misnumbered 93 (as in all copies examined), on p. 243, Chapter XVI is misnumbered XIV (as in all copies examined), and the final "i" present in the pagination on p. vii (sequence not determined); in Volume II, the fifth line of the copyright notice reads "a Book" (BAL State A, sequence not determined). With the final blank leaf in Volume I and Volume II, without the blank following the title-page. The second and most famous of Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales," although it was the first tale to be published. BAL 3833; Grolier 76; Spiller & Blackburn 7.