1829 · Philadelphia
by Cooper, James Fenimore
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey - Chestnut Street, 1829. First American edition, first published in London in 3 volumes under the title The Borderers about two weeks earlier; 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. 251, [1]; 234, [6] ads; contemporary full speckled calf boards; gilt spine decoration; black morocco labels; numbered as Cooper's Novels 17 & 18 by a contemporary private owner; somewhat foxed; covers rubbed; corners scuffed; otherwise good and sound. The novel is set in Connecticut, during and after King Philip's War of 1675-76. BAL 3844; Wright I, 745.
(Inventory #: 56979)