The Pilot

VERY GOOD condition — Firm binding. Crisp exterior. Clean, unmarked pages. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.

This text is featured in the Easton Press series: Collector's Library of Famous Editions. Published in 1968, bound in handsome Teal Green leather, and beautifully illustrated by Robert M. Quackenbush, this edition would be a worthy addendum to your collectibles library.

Specifics of this series from the Easton Press website:

* Fully and tightly bound in genuine leather.
* 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine.
* Heavy duty binding boards... .
* Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper... .
* Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books.
* ...moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker.
* Gilded page ends.

Included with the book is an insert of Notes from the Archives.

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" 'The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea' is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1824 (though the earliest edition is actually dated 1823). Its subject is the life of a naval pilot during the American Revolution. It is often considered the earliest example of nautical fiction in American literature."

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In the 1849 preface to his own novel, James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851) tells of his reaction to what he considedred the paltry knowledge of seamanship evinced in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Pirate: 'The result was a sudden determination to produce a work which, if it had no other merit, might present truer pictures of the ocean and shops than any that are to be found in The Pirate . . . '

Fromt its first appearance in 1824, The Pilot met with such success that, as Cooper himself recognized, sea tales came into vogue. They have since been penned by authors as early as Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville, and as prolific as Jack London and Jospeho Conrad.

A son of the wealthy landowner who founded Cooperstown, New York, Cooper was born in Burlington, New Jersey. By 1811, after being expelled from Yale University and then spending a brief period as a sailor, Cooper occupied himself as a gentleman farmer in Westchester County, New York. He published the first of his fifty novels in 1820; . . . "

The above text was taken from, respectively, Wikipedia and the Notes from the Archives.