Deerslayer First Path by Fennimore Cooper (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. G/none, 537pp plus ads to rear. Illustrated gold cloth over boards with faded black text on upper and gilt text on spine, edge wear, bumped and frayed tips; soiled; rubbed. Interior clean, no marks except on front paste down which has some penciled notations. Binding is started. 0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Scribner's Classics edition. Small 4to. [4], v-x, [2], 462 pp. Black cloth with a mounted Wyeth illustration in color on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; brown topstain. Book illustrations include a pictorial title page, pictorial endpapers and pastedowns, and nine additional bright and beautiful color plates by N.C. Wyeth. Allen 202. The final story of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, and an installation in the Scribner's Illustrated Classics series. Wyeth was a student of Howard Pyle's, and his signature illustration style remains desirable to readers and collectors of today. A giant in modern American illustration, N.C. Wyeth illustrated tales of adventure and fantasy for the Scribner's series, and completed many illustrations for magazines and advertisement materials. Wyeth was also an accomplished painter. In this work, his art breathes life into Cooper's tale of romance and adventure on the American frontier. A soiled spot on the rear board. A name on the free front endpaper, and a few leaves with small chips to their fore-edges.