The Pathfinder; Immortal Masterpieces of Literature Volume III.
Reading, PA: The Spencer Press, 1937. 1st. Hardcover. 5.75"x8.25"x1.63". 344 pages. Navy cloth boards with blue paper paste down with red ferns and white flowers on front and back cover. Matching paste downs inside cover. Frontispiece is sketch of Pathfinder. Immortal Masterpieces of Literature series. Also known as "The Inland Sea". Twelve original drawings. Ex-library with graphics. Eleven illustrations plus frontispiece. Edges and shelf wear. Sticker of back cover. Rubs on top and bottom of spine and corners. Minor foxing. No markings. Spine straight, and binding tight. very good / no jacket. Item #2335
"The Pathfinder (1840), Cooper's most picturesque novel and the fourth of the five Leatherstocking Tales, is a naval story set on the Great Lakes of the 1750s. Fashioned from Cooper's own experience as a midshipman on Lake Ontario in 1808-09, the novel revives Natty Bumpo (who had died in The Prairie), and illuminates Cooper's interest in American history with his concern for social development." Goodreads.
Fouth of five Leatherstocking tales. Immortal Masterpieces of Literature series by Spencer Press. Volume III of a X volume set by Spencer Press. The Spencer Library of Immortal Masterpieces – also referred to as the Spencer Library of Immortal Literature – was a pre-WW2 illustrated classics series which seems to have been sold via subscription and through newspaper offices.
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