Books published by publisher Heritage Schoolhouse Press

Leather inlay medallion on cover with intertwined "JB" and "WB." Also leather title inlay on spine. Covers and page edges are foxed. No dust jacket or box, if originally included. 12 magnificent watercolor illustrations by Blake. The only mark in the book is a lightly penciled price inside front cover. This is a beautiful special edition designed by Stefan Salter in 14 point "Caslon Old Face" type and printed at the American Book-Stratford Press in New York.

** THE 1961 HERITAGE PRESS EDITION, with ILLUSTRATIONS BY EDWARD A. WILSON. CREAM-COLORED cloth covers and a SLIPCASE. Introduction by John T. Winterich. **..The Deerslayer is the culmination of James Fenimore Cooper s Leather-Stocking novels, featuring Natty Bumppo (the deer-slaying young frontiersman) and the Mohican chief, Chingachgook. Cooper portrays the hubris of the conquest of a vast territory. The action takes place during the American wars of the 1740s. Natty and his friend Harry attempt to save a trapper and two young women, whose floating fort on Lake Glimmerglass is besieged by the ruthless Iroquois. The tension steadily increases to the point at which a cruel outcome seems inevitable. The exciting action, the romantic potentialities and the knowledgeable evocation of frontier life (with its moral and racial conflicts) have made this novel a perennial favourite. The courageous Natty, with his problematic values, has set the precedent for countless American heroes. Culturally, The Deerslayer has proved to be a powerfully influential work.

Questing after Pancho Villa's revolutionary forces, Ambose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and completely vanished off the face of the earth. Though his ultimate fate remains a mystery to this day, Bierce's contribution to American letter's rests firmly on the basis of his incomparable Devil's Dictionary and a remarkable body of short fiction. This collection gathers some three dozen of Bierce's finest stories, including the celebrated Civil War fictions "An Occurrence at Owl Creek" and "Chickamauga, " his macabre masterpieces "The Damned Thing" and "Moxon's Master, " and his hilariously horrific "Oil of Dog" and "My Favorite Murder."