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James Fenimore Cooper, 1820
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Precaution, in original boards
James Fenimore Cooper, 1820
[COOPER, James Fenimore (1789-1851).] Precaution. New York: A.T. Goodrich & Co., 1820.
Scarce in original boards: the first edition of Cooper’s debut novel, the story of Emily Moseley and George Denbigh, set in Northamptonshire. A far cry from the best-selling frontier novels he would become known for, it nonetheless received modestly favorable reviews. ABPC records only four copies in original boards selling at auction (the 2007 copy listed is actually an error; that copy was in contemporary calf). With errata leaf in vol. 1 after title page. BAL 3825; Spiller & Blackburn 1.
Octavo. Half-titles (two small skillful repairs to outer margin of vol 2 title page; heavy foxing internally to last third of volume 2). Original plain gray boards, title on spine (rebacked with original spine laid down). Provenance: Mrs Azelia Florian (1797-1860, New Concord, Louisiana; ownership inscription to title pages) – Mrs Russell (ownership inscription).
James Fenimore Cooper, 1820
[COOPER, James Fenimore (1789-1851).] Precaution. New York: A.T. Goodrich & Co., 1820.
Scarce in original boards: the first edition of Cooper’s debut novel, the story of Emily Moseley and George Denbigh, set in Northamptonshire. A far cry from the best-selling frontier novels he would become known for, it nonetheless received modestly favorable reviews. ABPC records only four copies in original boards selling at auction (the 2007 copy listed is actually an error; that copy was in contemporary calf). With errata leaf in vol. 1 after title page. BAL 3825; Spiller & Blackburn 1.
Octavo. Half-titles (two small skillful repairs to outer margin of vol 2 title page; heavy foxing internally to last third of volume 2). Original plain gray boards, title on spine (rebacked with original spine laid down). Provenance: Mrs Azelia Florian (1797-1860, New Concord, Louisiana; ownership inscription to title pages) – Mrs Russell (ownership inscription).
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