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James Fenimore Cooper | First Editions
1789 - 1851
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 15, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. Moreover, Cooper was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church and, in his later years, contributed generously to it. Fans of Cooper may be interested to know that he attended Yale University for three years, where he was a member of the Linonian Society, but was expelled for misbehavior.
Before embarking on his career as a writer, he served in the U.S. Navy as a Midshipman, which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about counterespionage set during the Revolutionary War and published in 1821. Cooper also wrote numerous sea stories - of which, his best-known are the five historical novels of the frontier period, known as the Leatherstocking Tales.
Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece. Cooper's historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature, which remains popular today.
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The Leather-Stocking Tales [The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans; The Pathfinder; The Pioneers; The Prairie].
London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1900-1901. [American Literature] FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 18cm). Each volume contains twenty-five line drawing plates by the brothers Brock. Recently bound in brown half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels..... More
Lionel Lincoln. Or, The Leaguer of Boston.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832. [Classic Literature] EX LIBRIS WILLIAM GLADSTONE. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.viii; 408; [2], blank. FIRST ILLUSTRATED, One Volume Edition. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary brown half calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Marbled boards, edges and endpapers..... More
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