COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (AUTHOR); LANSING, M. F. (EDITOR) — Cooper's Deerslayer: Abridged Student Edition

Boston: Ginn and Company, 1910. Hardcover. The final novel in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales series is actually the first if measured chronologically. Originally published in 1841, "The Deerslayer" features the author's Natty Bumppo character as a very young man. This edition has been abridged for a student reader by M. F. Lansing, with study aids at rear of volume. With a handful of plates bearing black & white illustrations, including a frontis portrait of the author. --- In brown cloth-covered boards with illustration & titling in darker brown. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- A prior owner has liberally marked up the endpapers with her name and other notations, and with soiling to cover cloth, but remaining fully readable and tightly-bound.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; v, 378 pages. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket .