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The Prairie
de James Fenimore Cooper
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Near Fine
- Librería
-
Longmont, Colorado, United States
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The Easton Press, Masterpieces of American Literature, Collector's Edition, c.1968. Illustrated by John Steuart Curry. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Near Fine. All four corners rubbed as well as bottom and top of spine; small chip on top edge of binding near cover. Else Fine / As New. Bound In full (genuine) brown leather with hubbed spine. Text block is tight and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper with gilded edges. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, marbled end papers, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.
Sinopsis
Deep in the heart of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, five hundred miles beyond the Mississippi River, a group of travelers in the year 1805 pushes yet farther westward over the prairie. Called "squatters" and equipped with covered wagons, livestock, farming implements, and household furnishings, they give every appearance of being ordinary settlers except for the fact they have bypassed the fertile river bottoms for the less productive Great Plains. This group is comprised of the rough, semiliterate Ishmael and Esther Bush, now in their fifties; their numerous children, including seven grown sons; Esther's brother, Abiram White; Ellen Wade, a niece, whose bearing bespeaks a more refined background; and Dr. Obed Bat, an eccentric naturalist. In search of a camping place for the night, they are suddenly confronted by a colossal figure who momentarily fills them with superstitious awe. It is Natty Bumppo, whose form, greatly magnified by an optical illusion, is outlined against the setting sun on the horizon. Once a hunter and scout but now reduced in his old age to trapping, Natty is almost as startled as the newcomers by the encounter. It has been months since the octogenarIan has seen white people so far beyond the settlements. He leads the Bush party to a campsite which will provide for their basic needs: water, fuel, and fodder for the animals.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Barbed Wire Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- M1147
- Título
- The Prairie
- Autor
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Ilustrador
- John Steuart Curry
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Easton Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Norwalk, CT
- Fecha de publicación
- c. 1968
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction; Easton Press;
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Fine
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