Author: James Fenimore CooperTitle: The PilotPublisher: Colburn and Bentley - London edition, 1831Binding: Original paper boards with leather corner tips; new leather spine using original black spine labelPages: 420Format: 8voDescription - A very good copy Richard Colburn and Henry Bentley's 1831 London edition of The Pilot, Cooper’s groundbreaking nautical novel—first published in America in 1823 and widely regarded as the earliest example of American nautical fiction. This was Cooper’s fourth novel and remains one of his most admired works.Condition Original paper boards with rubbing, light edgewear, and several bumps. Leather corner tips rubbed and bumped. New leather spine, retaining the original spine label. Binding tight, square copy; refreshed endpapers. Interior clean and unmarked. Foxing and toning to vignette title page and frontispiece
Overall, a very good, solid example of this early Cooper classic
James Fenimore Cooper ~ The Pilot ~ 1831 Colburn & Bentley Publishers ~ London
$139.95Price