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The Pathfinder; Immortal Masterpieces of Literature Volume III
by James Fenimore Cooper
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- very good/no jacket
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
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£40.00£36.00
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About This Item
Reading, PA: The Spencer Press, 1937. 1st. Hardcover. very good/no jacket. 5.75"x8.25"x1.63". 344 pages. Navy cloth boards with blue paper paste down with red ferns and white flowers on front and back cover. Matching paste downs inside cover. Frontispiece is sketch of Pathfinder. Immortal Masterpieces of Literature series. Also known as "The Inland Sea". Twelve original drawings. Ex-library with graphics. Eleven illustrations plus frontispiece. Edges and shelf wear. Sticker of back cover. Rubs on top and bottom of spine and corners. Minor foxing. No markings. Spine straight, and binding tight. "The Pathfinder (1840), Cooper's most picturesque novel and the fourth of the five Leatherstocking Tales, is a naval story set on the Great Lakes of the 1750s. Fashioned from Cooper's own experience as a midshipman on Lake Ontario in 1808-09, the novel revives Natty Bumpo (who had died in The Prairie), and illuminates Cooper's interest in American history with his concern for social development." Goodreads.
Fouth of five Leatherstocking tales. Immortal Masterpieces of Literature series by Spencer Press. Volume III of a X volume set by Spencer Press. The Spencer Library of Immortal Masterpieces - also referred to as the Spencer Library of Immortal Literature - was a pre-WW2 illustrated classics series which seems to have been sold via subscription and through newspaper offices.
Fouth of five Leatherstocking tales. Immortal Masterpieces of Literature series by Spencer Press. Volume III of a X volume set by Spencer Press. The Spencer Library of Immortal Masterpieces - also referred to as the Spencer Library of Immortal Literature - was a pre-WW2 illustrated classics series which seems to have been sold via subscription and through newspaper offices.
Synopsis
Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest that sustains him in his beliefs. A fast-paced narrative full of adventure and majestic descriptions of early frontier life, Indian raiders, and defenseless outposts, The Pathfinder set the standard for epic action literature.
Reviews
On Jan 7 2011, Yennarmo1935 said:
I purchased this book [JFC's 'The Pathfinder'] for my wife and she said she thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, she liked it so much she had me order 'The Prairie'.
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Details
- Seller
- Blacks Bookshop
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2335
- Title
- The Pathfinder; Immortal Masterpieces of Literature Volume III
- Author
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Jacket Condition
- no jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- The Spencer Press
- Place of Publication
- Reading, PA
- Date Published
- 1937
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