The Last of the Mohicans

In The orginal Paper-covered Boards

In Two Volumes. Philadelphia: H. C. Carey & I. Lea—Chesnut-Street. 1826.” FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s original tan paper boards, rebacked to style, preserving the original endpapers, all blanks and flyleaves, and the original printed paper spine label for Volume Two. Volume One label in expert facsimile. Volume One with page 89 misnumbered 93, and with the misprint XIV for XVI on page 243 (these are often cited as issue points but all known copies have both errors). The page number is present on page 71 (priority undetermined), and the last “i” is present in the pagination on page vii (sequence not determined, though BAL conjectures that the letter dropped out at some point during the printing). Volume Two with the blank conjugate leaf of the title-page present (in some copies it has been excised), and with State A of the copyright page, reading “a Book” (no known priority). Front pastedowns with “Flemington Library” written in black ink and with the bookplate of the Hunterdon County Historical Society. With the latter’s blue ink stamp on the copyright pages and an early owner ink signature on the title-page of Volume One but no other markings either inside or out. Scattered foxing, mostly light. A touch of stiffness or wrinkling to the text block but this is a very good set of a high spot of American literature, not commonly surviving in the original boards. BAL 3833.