first edition
1823 · New York
by Cooper, J. F.
New York: Charles Wiley, 1823. First edition, 12mo, 2 volumes in 1, pp. [5], viii-ix, 275, [1]; 329, [3]; contemporary full calf, morocco spine label, extra engraved illustration by Childs and Fairman tipped in at the beginning of vol. 2; spine and covers quite rubbed; title page of vol. 1 torn at the bottom edge with loss of the date, lacks half-title in vol. 1, front endpaper of volume 1 excised; final 8 leaves of vol. 2 horizontally cut halfway across the page with a blade, no loss of text; otherwise very good. A prequel to Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans, The Pioneers is the first of five novels in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. The story (truncated)