The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Publisher : J. H. Sears & Company, Inc.
New York 1924
Author : James Fenimore Cooper
A hardback book

The Reader's Library

A novel of 345 pages.

From the book :

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently and impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist and the trained European who fought at his side frequently expeded months in struggling against the rapids of the streams or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict. But emulating the patience and self-denial of the practical native warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe. ...

Condition : There is a glue stain at the binding inside at the front cover. There is some wear on the front cover. The gold inlay is good. There are tears and abrasions on the back cover.