Autograph manuscript, a page from chapter 26 of The Oak Openings: or, the Bee-Hunter
$4,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available
Published: 1848. 21 lines, on one page. Oblong 8vo. Trace of mounting on verso, small tear at top left costing one word. Docketed in pencil on verso. Item #374692 Beginning: … ‘we can count on you, for a friend, I hope?' said the bee-hunter, as the two were about to part, on the bank of the river. ‘I fear you were, once, our enemy.’”Cooper‘s novel, The Oak
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