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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.

The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, who is simply known as "the trapper" in it. Chronologically The Prairie is the fifth and final installment of the Leatherstocking Tales. It depicts Natty in the final year of his life still proving helpful to people in distress on the American frontier. Continuity with The Last of the Mohicans is indicated by the appearance of the grandson of Duncan and Alice Heyward of The Last of the Mohicans and the noble Pawnee chief Hard Heart, whose name is English for the French nickname for the Delaware, le Coeur-dur. Natty is drawn to Hard Heart as a noble warrior in the likeness of his dear friend Uncas, "the last of the Mohicans."

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. " Up with my tent: here will I lie to-night, Bat where, to-morrow ?—Well, all's one for that.5' Richard Thk FuiEi The travellers soon discovered the usual and unerring evidences that the several articles necessary to their situation were not far distant. A clear and gurgling spring burst out of the side of the declivity, and joining its waters to those of other similar little fountains in its vicinity, their united contributions formed a run, which was easily to be traced for miles along the prairie, by the scattering foliage and verdure which occasionally grew within the influence of its moisture. Hither, then, the stranger held his way, eagerly followed by the willing teams, whose instinct gave them a prescience of refreshment and rest. On reaching what he deemed a suitable spot, the old man halted, and with an inquiring look, he.seemed to demand if it possessed the needed conveniences. The leader of the emigrants cast his eyes understandingly about him, and examined the place with the keenness of one competent to judge of so nice a question, though in that dilatory and heavy manner which rarely permitted him to betray precipitation. " Ay, this may do," he said, when satisfied with his scrutiny ; " boys, you have seen the last of the sun; be stirring." The young men manifested a characteristic obedience. The cider, for such in tone and manner it was, in truth, was received with respect; but the utmost movement was the falling of an axe or two from the shoulder to the ground, while their owners continued to regard the place with listless and incurious eyes. In the meantime, the elder traveller, as if familiar with the nature of the impulses by which his children wero governed.disencumbered himself of bis pack and rifle, and, assisted by the man alre...

Many are unfamiliar with James Fenimore Cooper, even though every American comes across his work in the class or on TV. Today he is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Cooper’s most famous novel is The Last of the Mohicans, which was one of the novels comprising The Leatherstocking Tales and was later made into a popular movie.