Books with title The Thundering Prairie

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The action of James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie (1827) unfolds against the backdrop of the grasslands beyond the Mississippi, just after the Louisiana Purchase, in the early days of western expansion. It features Cooper's most celebrated literary creation, Natty Bumppo, now aged and reduced to making a living by trapping. As the frontiersman's epic journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific nears its end in a vast and still uninhabited region that Cooper consistently imagines as an ocean of the interior, nothing less than the future identity of America is at stake, Domhnall Mitchell suggests in his Introduction.The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of the novel from The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper, published by the State University of New York Press.Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 1st Edition Thus, Signed and Limited Edition, number 32 of 1,500. Signed by the illustrator to the Limitation Leaf to rear. Thick Royal 4to. xv + 411pp. Coloured frontispiece from watercolour, profuse and lovely illustrations, including full-page size, triple folding coloured illustration, several further full-page coloured and sepia-tinted plates, in-text illustrations and vignette illustrations. Beautifully bound, with a note on the binding loosely inserted by the publisher. 'Because many of the characters mentioned in this book wore deerskin...the leather used upon the binding is natural deerskin...usually used for the making of gloves.' The leather is very soft and subject to scratches, thus limited by the publishers to the spine and backing over linen cloth sepia pictorial cloth boards. Great shelf presence with two bright gilt embossed buffalo vignettes and title to gently sunned spine. A great addition to the library of reader and collector alike, in an unusual binding.