The pathfinder; or, The inland sea
New York: Appleton and Company, 1876. 8vo, pp. x, 515, [3]; engraved frontispiece and additional title page, text illustrations throughout; contemporary green cloth (a bit soiled) stamped in black and gilt, t.e.g, yellow glazed endpapers; general wear to edges and corners, else very good. Spine title: "Cooper's Novels. The Pathfinder". "Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by W.A. Townsend and Company" - title page verso. Reprint of the seventh volume of the first "de luxe" edition, in 32 volumes, of "Cooper's Novels," illustrated by F.O.C. Darley, New York: W.A. Townsend and Company, 1859-1861. "The volumes were evidently issued for sale separately as well as in sets, for there are no half-titles or other indications of the proper shelf order. The set title occurs on the spine only...D. Appleton and Company issued a cheap reprint of the same edition in 1872-1873 and continued to reprint it in various forms...until 1901," Spiller & Blackburn, p. 170-171. Item #41518
Price: $25.00
