GOOD: This book shows the usual signs of use and wear for a read book, especially at the cover's corners. The front cover also has a scratch, visible in the image above. Some of the pages were creased, but are free of marks. The pages are beginning to tan with age (1962).
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Contents
Biography of James Fenimore Cooper
Author's Introduction (1850)
The Last of the Mohicans
Afterword by James Franklin Beard, Clark University
Selected Bibliography
Works by James Fenimore Cooper
Selected Biography and Criticism
A Note on the Text (See below)
From the back cover: "The Last of the Mohicans contains the classic portrait of the man of moral courage who severs all connections with a society whose values he can no longer accept. Despite his chosen exile, Hawk-eye (Natty Bumppo), the frontier scout, risks his life to escort two sisters through hostile Indian country. On the dangerous journey he enlists the aid of the Mohican Chingachgook. And in the challenging ordeal that follows, in their encounters with deception, brutality, and the deaths of love ones, the friendship between the two men deepens—the scout and the Indian, each with a singular philosophy of independence that has been nurtured and shaped by the silent, virgin forest."
A Note on the Text: "The text of this edition is based on the W. A. Townsend and Company edition published in 1859 and reprinted by the Riverside Press in their collected edition of Cooper's works in 1870. The Author's Introduction is the one he wrote for the 1850 revised edition. The spelling and punctuation have been brought into conformity with modern American usage."
