Cooper, James Fenimore — The Deerslayer or: The First War-Path

New York, Heritage Press, 1958. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine full-color illustration pasted inset to the front cover of this fine-looking, sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover copy of a Heritage Press title, being a First Edition Thus. Clean, bright, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, having been preserved well in a Good condition, paper-covered cardboard slipcase. Beautiful oatmeal cloth over boards, fine illustration of a deer and a rifle and a hunter's accoutrements inset at front panel cut-out. From a collection of three dozen Heritage Press titles that belonged to an Eastern Washington professional botanist. Complete with the Sandglass newsletter. The Heritage Press operated from 1937 - 1982 and was created by George Macy, who managed with editors the reprinting of volumes from the Limited Editions Club, thus enabling fine printing exemplars to trickle down to a broader public still thirsty, newly thirsty, for classic nineteenth-century novels and biographies. James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel is Introduced by John T. WInterich, and with lovely duotone and full-color illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. xiv [3], 4-510 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine