Item #56979 The wept of Wish ton-Wish: a tale; by the author of The Pioneers, Prairie, &c. &c. In two volumes. James Fenimore Cooper.
The wept of Wish ton-Wish: a tale; by the author of The Pioneers, Prairie, &c. &c. In two volumes
The wept of Wish ton-Wish: a tale; by the author of The Pioneers, Prairie, &c. &c. In two volumes

The wept of Wish ton-Wish: a tale; by the author of The Pioneers, Prairie, &c. &c. In two volumes

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey - Chestnut Street, 1829. First American edition, first published in London in 3 volumes under the title The Borderers about two weeks earlier; 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. 251, [1]; 234, [6] ads; contemporary full speckled calf boards; gilt spine decoration; black morocco labels; numbered as Cooper's Novels 17 & 18 by a contemporary private owner; somewhat foxed; covers rubbed; corners scuffed; otherwise good and sound. The novel is set in Connecticut, during and after King Philip's War of 1675-76. BAL 3844; Wright I, 745. Item #56979

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