Description

Hardcover, quarto volume bound in full dark brown gilt stamped decorative leather. 377 pages. Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. Preface by Edward Everett Hale. A quality Easton Press production with all the refinements that go to make this a truly fine binding: silk moire end-papers and bound in ribbon marker, all edges gilt, raised spine, 22kt gold stamping, smyth-sewn binding and full genuine leather. First edition thus. A title in the Collector’s Edition, the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. The second installment in Cooper’s five-volume Leatherstocking Saga featuring the continuing adventures of Natty Bumppo, aka ‘Deerslayer’. Book is clean, sound, tight and internally unmarked. Minute blemish to gilt on fore-edge of bulked pages and blank, unused Easton Press book-plate affixed to front free silk moire end-paper. Else a pristine and like new copy. Near fine.