COOPER, James Fenimore (1789-1851)]. The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground . New York: Wiley & Halsted, 1821.
COOPER, James Fenimore (1789-1851)]. The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground . New York: Wiley & Halsted, 1821. First edition of Cooper’s romance of Revolutionary War espionage. Cooper was among the first to treat espionage in fiction . BAL’s second state of vol. 2, with pages 285 and 286 in proper position. Very rare: according to ABPC only three copies have appeared at auction over the last thirty years. 2 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary half marbled boards and red straight-grain morocco (minor wear to joints and extremities, boards lightly rubbed); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : G. Newbold (early pencil signatures); Heth Lorton (bookplates). G. Newbold may be the “Mr. Newbold” referred to in two letters from Cooper to his wife written while convalescing in 1849. See Letters , ed. by J.F. Beard, VI, pp. 57 and 92. BAL 3826; Spiller & Blackburn 2.
COOPER, James Fenimore (1789-1851)]. The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground . New York: Wiley & Halsted, 1821.
COOPER, James Fenimore (1789-1851)]. The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground . New York: Wiley & Halsted, 1821. First edition of Cooper’s romance of Revolutionary War espionage. Cooper was among the first to treat espionage in fiction . BAL’s second state of vol. 2, with pages 285 and 286 in proper position. Very rare: according to ABPC only three copies have appeared at auction over the last thirty years. 2 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary half marbled boards and red straight-grain morocco (minor wear to joints and extremities, boards lightly rubbed); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : G. Newbold (early pencil signatures); Heth Lorton (bookplates). G. Newbold may be the “Mr. Newbold” referred to in two letters from Cooper to his wife written while convalescing in 1849. See Letters , ed. by J.F. Beard, VI, pp. 57 and 92. BAL 3826; Spiller & Blackburn 2.
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