The Deerslayer; or, the First War-Path
Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Company, 1890. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2352944
No date, circa 1885 (publisher incorporated under this name in 1880 and went out of business in 1892). Corners rubbed, binding a bit shaken (two gatherings proud at fore edge but holding firmly), owner bookplate on front endpaper, frontispiece a bit foxed.
537 pp. Mustard cloth, black titles and decorations, floral decorated endpapers, engraved frontispiece. The Deerslayer, or The First War-path (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. The novel's setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of The Pioneers, the first of the Leatherstocking Tales to be published (1823). The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking Tales.
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