COOPER, James Fenimore.

£600 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Pioneers. First British edition of the first of the author's "Leatherstocking Tales", introducing the frontiersman Natty Bumppo. The novel was first published on 1 February 1823 in New York, and in London 25 days later."Cooper claimed that he wrote his first novel on a dare, his second to please a fickle reading public, and his third, The Pioneers, exclusively to please himself... [he] drew extensively on memories of his childhood in upstate New York... this element of autobiographical reminiscence is what made the novel such a deep pleasure for Cooper to write. But The Pioneers did more than just please its author; it helped make him an international success" (Cavitch).This copy includes a typed description of the set from Stewart Kidd in Cincinnati. The firm was founded in 1910 by W. K. Stewart and John G. Kidd. In 1933 the firm's name was changed to John G. Kidd & Son.

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