The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper - Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth (1927 Hardcover, Very Good Condition) | Classic American Frontier Novel for Book Collectors & Literature Enthusiasts

Cooper, James Fenimore, and N.C. Wyeth [illus.]. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 

English, Very Good, HC, 8vo, 9 1/2" x 7 1/4", 462 pp.

Hardcover in black cloth with a full-color tipped-in image to front panel; deckled edges; laid-in black-and-white postcard of The Crane House. Slight cocking to spine, some exterior and interior soiling, minor edgewear and wear to head, tail, and tips, slightly shaken panels, previous owner's label to front pastedown, and embossed label to front blank page, else tightly bound. 462 pp. Includes illustrated endpapers and 9 full-color reproduced illustrations by American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth. A thirty-two-chapter novel with a preface to the book and one to the series it's a part of, The Leather-Stocking Tales written by 19th-century American author, James Fenimore Cooper, who is known for his historical romances with Indigenous and colonial characters interacting. Although this story was published as the fifth and final installment of the series in 1841, it works chronologically as the prequel to the previous books following the main character, Natty Bumppo.