Author: James Fenimore Cooper

Title: The Pilot

Publisher: Colburn and Bentley - London edition, 1831

Binding: Original paper boards with leather corner tips; new leather spine using original black spine label

Pages: 420

Format: 8vo

Description - 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