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The Pilot, A Tale of the Sea
by Cooper, James Fenimore
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good condition/No dust jacket, as issued
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons: The Knickerbocker Press, 1900. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, this being #125. This volume only from The Complete Works of J. Fenimore Cooper, LEATHER-STOCKING EDITION. SEE photos for this and other titles available from the same limited edition set - all sold separately. No date of publication is indicated, but circa 1900. Appears unread. Very Good condition. Handsomely bound in the original gilt-ruled textured maroon cloth, with smooth maroon cloth spine. The spine features two gilt-decorated/lettered brown leather labels (tiny chips). SEE PHOTO. The cover is only very lightly rubbed. Internal condition is Very Fine -- apparently never read, especially since some pages remain unopened -- still uncut at the fore-edge. Hinges, inner and outer, are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. All pages are crisp and clean. NO foxing. Top edge gilt. All gilt stamping is still bright and shiny. With photogravure frontispiece reproducing a ship illustration by S. S. W. Benjamin (tissue-guard is text printed), illustrated titlepage (printed in red and black), and decorative chapter head and tail pieces. "The Pilot was the first of Cooper's sea novels and represented the invention of a new kind of fiction. Inspiration for the use of the sea as a subject for a novel came from Cooper's annoyance with Sir Walter Scott's seamanship in The Pirate and his determination to show what a real sea-faring man could do with maritime materials." -- Joan St. Clair Crane (1974). See Spiller & Blackburn p. 173.. Leather-Stocking Edition, Limited 1000. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by Benjamin, S. S. W.. 8vo. ix, 443pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025507
- Title
- The Pilot, A Tale of the Sea
- Author
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Illustrator
- Benjamin, S. S. W.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good condition
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket, as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Leather-Stocking Edition, Limited 1000
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons: The Knickerbocker Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 8vo. ix, 443pp
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Literary Biography / Criticism;
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About the Seller
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Henderson, Nevada
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Top Edge Gilt
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- G
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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- Fine
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