Cooper j ames fenimore (9 Ergebnisse)

Full Brown Calf. Zustand: Fine. No Dust Jacket. Collector's Edition. All edges gilt. Covers and spine designed and lettered in gilt. Silk bookmark sewn-in. Color frontispiece portrait of the author. Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. First published in 1826 in two volumes, this novel was the second of the pentology of "Leatherstocking Tales". As always, the protagonist is Natty Bumppo. Cooper lived from 1789-1851. 377pp. Size: Super Royal Octavo.…

Inhalt: Der Wildtöter - Der Letzte der Mohikaner - Der Pfadfinder - Lederstrumpf - Der alte Trapper gr.-8°. 564, 5 Bl. ill. Verlagsanz. Mit 5 Chromolith. u. 60 Textill. v. E[duard] KLINGEBEIL. HLn., d. Zt. farb. ODeckelill. aufgezogen.

1 vols. 8vo. First Paris edition. First Paris edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Spiller and Blackburn p. 98. Spiller and Blackburn p. 98 Contemporary quarter brown roan and orange marbled boards, black spine label. Some rubbing, occasional foxing. Very good.

2 vols. 8vo. First Paris editions of Gleanings in Europe. Switzerland and Gleanings in Europe. The Rhine. 2 vols. 8vo. Spiller and Blackburn pp. 85, 87. Spiller and Blackburn pp. 85, 87 Contemporary tan calf and marbled boards. Rubbed, joints rubbed. Good, internally clean First Paris editions of Gleanings in Europe. Switzerland and Gleanings in Europe. The Rhine.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. J[ames] Fenimore Cooper: THE MONIKINS. New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1865 edition (first published in 1835). This is a custom-bound copy in quarter leather, leather spine, and handmade marbleed paper, veritably a museum piece. Anyone would be extremely pleased with this specimen. Though immortalized by his Leatherstocking adventures, it's not as well known that Cooper was also a pioneer of science fiction. The satirical fantasy novel Monikins regards the discovery of a Lost Race, a hidden and very advanced ape race. He wrote it midway through writing and publishing his vastly popular Leatherstocking tales, and his enormous fan base just didn't want anything but frontier adventure, so his fantasy novel never became popular and is comparatively rare. It probably didn't help that his own daughter in contributing commentaries to a posthumous edition showed no understanding of the highest flights of imagination and condemned the book as a failure, which it most certainly is not. It draws its context more or less from Swift's Gulliver and from the whole now-forgotten genre of "fabulous voyage" stories written a century before the advent of Jules Verne. A sea captain obtains four monkeys only to discover afterwards that they can speak, and would like to be returned to their home, an advanced society divided between an unknown pair of polar islands which, as with Swift's Gulliver, provided Cooper ample opportunity for ironic observation and satiric tweaking of deplorable human institutions.…

Kl.-8°, Halbleinen. 30 Bände in 15 Bänden (kompl.). Einheitliche marmorierte Halbleinenbände mit jeweils 2 Bänden, aus dem Englischen übertragen, goldfarb. Rückentitel, Mischauflage, Stahlstich-Frontispiz, Seiten meist hellbraunfleckig Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

First Paris edition (in English), same year as the Phila. edition. Half titles present. xxv, 258; viii, 348, [349, blank], [350, Note] pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Spiller and Blackburn p. 105 (calling for 3 portraits and a map); Howes C748 (calling for 2 portraits); BAL 3888 (note) Later nineteenth century evergreen morocco, marbled boards. Bound without portraits or map. Some minor spotting and shelf wear, owner signature of ?N.S.S. Tompkins Nov. 1894? in each volume Half titles present. xxv, 258; viii, 348, [349, blank], [350, Note] pp. 2 vols. 8vo First Paris edition (in English), same year as the Phila. edition.…

8vo. Contemp. ocher half calf, spine gilt with black label. Vol. I: The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground. Vol. II: The Deerslayer Or, the First War-Path. Vol. III: The Last of the Mohicans. Vol. IV: The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea. Vol. V: The Pioneers; or the Sources of the Susquehanna. Vol. VI: The Prairie, A Tale. Vol. VII: The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea. Vol. VIII: Lionel Lincoln; or the Leaguer of Boston. Vol. IX: The Red Rover; A Tale. Vol. X: The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish. A Tale. XI: The Water-Witch: Or, The Skimmer of the Seas. A Tale. XII: The Bravo. A Tale. XIII: The Headsman: Or The Abbaye des Vignerons. A Tale. Vol. XIV: Homeward Bound: Or the Chase. A Tale of the Sea. Vol. XV: Home as Found. Sequel to Homeward Bound. Vol. XVI: The Two Admirals. A Tale. Vol. XVII: The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet. A Tale. Vol. XVIII: Wyandotté; Or, the Hutted Knoll. A Tale. Vol. XIX: Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef. Vol. XX: The Sea Lions; Or the Lost Sealers. Fine set. Clean. …

[1] - 116 pp. 1 vols. 4to. First edition. First edition. [1] - 116 pp. 1 vols. 4to. BAL 3866 Original blue cloth-backed printed boards. Spine partly split along lower joint, some foxing. Very good.