[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of James Fenimore Cooper's THE PATHFINDER, 1840, price greatly reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:     Was $2000,      Now $1200

[COOPER, James Fenimore]. THE PATHFINDER; OR, THE INLAND SEA... 
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. First American Edition. First 
issue without the copyright notice in the first volume. Two volumes 
bound in modern 1/2 smooth brown calf with contrasting leather spine 
lables and green cloth boards. Spine with gilt lettering and rules. BAL 
3892; Spiller & Blackburn 30. In this third of Cooper's five 
Leatherstocking Tales, set during the French and Indian War, the 
narrator describes how he surrenders the girl he loves to a more 
successful suitor. Bound without original endpapers and blanks. Light, 
even foxing throughout with an occasional small stain. Early and 
unidentified owner name at the top of each title page. Near Fine, nicely 
bound. (#010870)        $1,200.00

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