The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea de Cooper, J. Fenimore

Chicago, IL: M A Donohue & Co A Tale of the Sea. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

A.L. Burt Co., N.d. Reprint.. Soiling to top page edges & shelf wear. Owner's address stamp. VG-..

A. L. Burt. vg-. Hardcover. 473pp; no publication date, probably early 20th century; blue cover with black, yellow & red il'd cover & spine; back cover is faded along edges; some cracking to binding at title page; prev. owner's name + small drawing of dog in pencil on first page .

a l burt hardcover, no date. good getting brittle, some edge damp marks, burgundy color, weak hinges

D. Appleton & Company. Good. New York, n.d., circa early 1900; green cloth covered boards; no dust jacket; light rubbing on cover; slight bumping at corners; shelf wear at edges of spine; light pencil markings on free rear endpaper; Interior clean and unmarked; 8vo, 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall; 473 pages.

Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1879. No Edition Remarks. 444 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Heavy tanning to pages with slight dog-eared pages throughout and moderate tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and there is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Binding is also loose. Boards have visible rubbing and edge wear. Notable bumping to corners and heavy crushing to spine ends with splitting to joints. Fraying of cloth to spine ends as well.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ( 1884 ). New Edition. Hardcover. Good plus. 12mo, 444, 12 pages, half leather, marbled boards and endpapers, edgeworn, spine titling worn Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby; color illustrations by William Cotton. "Cooper is the fighting Quaker of American litrature. ... Cooper swung toward democracy, colored his social philosophy with the ideas of Jefferson, and took the continent and the oceans for his theme. this book [has] great interest as the first American novel to exploit patriotism successfully as a theme - Introduction."

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1884. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Unmarked, Mild Edgewear And Shelfwear, Normal Tanning From Age, Otherwise A Clean And Solid Copy, Fireside Edition Of Coopers Collected Works.

Very Good. 3/4 leather with marbleized boards pointed corners pages hardly ever used 1880 decorated maroon and gold on spine

New York: W.A. Townsend and Company, 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Illustrated in black and white from drawings by F.O.C. Darley. Brown cloth covered boards stamped in blank and gilt. Very good with foxing to the two frontispieces, soiling to the endpapers, toning and soiling to the spine, wear to the boards, and bumping to the spine ends and corners.