Author: COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE
Title: Chapters from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper
Description: New York: Westvaco, 1986. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Illustrated by F. O. C. Darling & James Hamilton. B/w engravings; 6 X 9 3/4; 343 pages; Faint bumping to book and slipcase. No DJ, as issued, with a fine slip case. Cream colored slip case with b/w landscape drawing. Hardcover is green-black with silver lettering on spine. Laid in is a heavy paper square stating: ex libris John Dann, presented by Karen M. Bloom. Book and slipcase appear as if unused, pages clean and tight. 44 engravings throughout the book and a frontispiece of J. F. Cooper. Privately published by Westvaco, Christmas, 1986." This limited edition of James Fenimore Cooper: Chapters is produced solely by Westvaco people. The foreword is by John C. Callihan. The selections and design of the book are by Karen M. Bloom.." The 44 banknote engravings in steel by F. O. C. Darley were selected from the Cooper vignettes, c. 1861 ... The illustration on the slipcase ... And the illustration on the end leaves ... Are by James Hamilton and were selected from Pages and pictures, c. 1865 ...". As New .

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