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[COOPER, James Fenimore (1789-1851)]. The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground. New York: Wiley & Halsted, 1821.
First edition of Cooper’s romance of Revolutionary War espionage. Cooper was among the first to treat espionage in fiction. BAL’s second state of vol. 2, with pages 285 and 286 in proper position. Very rare: according to ABPC only three copies have appeared at auction over the last thirty years.
2 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary half marbled boards and red straight-grain morocco (minor wear to joints and extremities, boards lightly rubbed); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: G. Newbold (early pencil signatures); Heth Lorton (bookplates). G. Newbold may be the “Mr. Newbold” referred to in two letters from Cooper to his wife written while convalescing in 1849. See Letters, ed. by J.F. Beard, VI, pp. 57 and 92. BAL 3826; Spiller & Blackburn 2.
First edition of Cooper’s romance of Revolutionary War espionage. Cooper was among the first to treat espionage in fiction. BAL’s second state of vol. 2, with pages 285 and 286 in proper position. Very rare: according to ABPC only three copies have appeared at auction over the last thirty years.
2 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary half marbled boards and red straight-grain morocco (minor wear to joints and extremities, boards lightly rubbed); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: G. Newbold (early pencil signatures); Heth Lorton (bookplates). G. Newbold may be the “Mr. Newbold” referred to in two letters from Cooper to his wife written while convalescing in 1849. See Letters, ed. by J.F. Beard, VI, pp. 57 and 92. BAL 3826; Spiller & Blackburn 2.