New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers [no date]. (hardcover) 430pp, +adverts. Good to very good, no dust jacket. Undated (c.1910-1920). 12mo. Green cloth pictorial boards. Boards with shelfwear, rubbing more pronounced at extremities. Lacking dust jacket, which matched the pictorial boards. Early signs of starting at front gutter, remaining entirely secure. Previous owner's gift inscription to ffep, dated Nov.16th / 31. Bottom corner of ffep lightly dirtied. Internally textblock is clean..

Synopsis

Deep in the heart of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, five hundred miles beyond the Mississippi River, a group of travelers in the year 1805 pushes yet farther westward over the prairie. Called "squatters" and equipped with covered wagons, livestock, farming implements, and household furnishings, they give every appearance of being ordinary settlers except for the fact they have bypassed the fertile river bottoms for the less productive Great Plains. This group is comprised of the rough, semiliterate Ishmael and Esther Bush, now in their fifties; their numerous children, including seven grown sons; Esther's brother, Abiram White; Ellen Wade, a niece, whose bearing bespeaks a more refined background; and Dr. Obed Bat, an eccentric naturalist. In search of a camping place for the night, they are suddenly confronted by a colossal figure who momentarily fills them with superstitious awe. It is Natty Bumppo, whose form, greatly magnified by an optical illusion, is outlined against the setting sun on the horizon. Once a hunter and scout but now reduced in his old age to trapping, Natty is almost as startled as the newcomers by the encounter. It has been months since the octogenarIan has seen white people so far beyond the settlements. He leads the Bush party to a campsite which will provide for their basic needs: water, fuel, and fodder for the animals.

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Bookseller: Spafford Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 121213
Title: The Prairie; A Tale
Author: Cooper, J. Fenimore
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
Place of Publication: New York
Keywords: Juvenile Literature, American Literature, Children's Literature, Juvenile, Juvenile Books, Literature

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Shelfwear: Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...