[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of Cooper's THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, 1826

[Charles Agvent]

[COOPER, James Fenimore] THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS; A NARRATIVE OF 1757....
Carey & Lea Philadelphia 1826. The true First Edition of this classic 
and very scarce. Two volumes bound in one in full contemporary polished 
calf with a morocco spine label. BAL 3833; Grolier One Hundred 
Influential American Books, 34: "This is the ... most famous of the 
Leatherstocking Tales, and the first in which the scout Natty Bumppo was 
made the symbol of all that was wise, heroic and romantic in the lives 
and characters of the white men who made the American wilderness their 
home"; Johnson: High Spots of American Literature, pp. 24-25; Spiller & 
Blackburn 7. Closely trimmed throughout, occasionally touching the page 
numbers and text on some pages. The last leaf of the preface has been 
bound before the first leaf. The first two leaves of the text proper 
have clean horizontal tears that have been crudely mended with old 
stitching. The lower corners of two pages have been torn off and laid 
in, slightly affecting text. Vertical tear at bottom gutter of title 
page to the second volume extending about halfway up and slightly toward 
the center of the page and similarly to the last page of text. Signature 
19 of second volume misbound in first volume. Old dampstain to part of 
second volume but not terribly distracting. Several pages in both 
volumes partly sprung. Rear endpaper lacking. The binding is in quite 
nice shape with some wear at the head of the spine and rubbing to the 
label and spine. A Good, entirely unsophisticated copy of this rare 
classic.       $7500.00
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