Search Results: The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper

USA: LITTLE BROWN. HARDCOVER. GOOD/N0 JACKET. A.L. Burt Company, USA, circe 1900’s, hardcover, good book with normal shelf wear, no jacket, unmarked, not remaindered, bookclub or library

A. L. Burt, 1901 Sea Stories Fiction Hardcover Later printing. Very Good. No DJ. Corners slightly bumped. Minor wear at head and tail of spine. Pages are clean. "Dark green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. This book is undated, but the latest date I could find among the books listed is 1901, so this book is circa 1901."

Donohue Brothers, 1890-01-01. 1890. Hardcover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. No date listed, circa 1890. Published by the Donohue Brothers of Chicago/New York. 424 pages. No dust jacket (none issued?). Shelfwear is very light. Faint, even sunning to spine. Age-toned pages, previous owner's name on front endpaper. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

A. L. Burt Company, NY. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. No DJ. No date found.....c.1903-20. Pages clean and unmarked. Covers (wine colored boards with gold typography) show minor shelf wear. Binding tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. #360 of 1000 numbered sets, red boards, title label on spine faded, tissue guarded illustrations, top edge gilt, no names or bookplates, part of the "Writings of J. Fenimore Cooper" set.

A. L. Burt, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good + in Good + DJ. No date circa 1910, home library edition reprint, very good + maroon cloth boards with top page edges gilt shows some mild soil at page edges and bumping to top page corners, in good + jacket with fading to spine not affecting title and author but publisher and borders, some soiling including a spot stain to front panel and at jacket reverse, along with small open chip at middle of spine and edge wear including closed tears and some shallow open chipping at edges, particularly spine ends. Remains an attractive copy of this classic work that retains the hard to find jacket with list of 450 titles published in Burt's Home Library.

Donohue, 1900. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition THUS. Red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering. Tanning to pages, cracked hinges..

The Perfect Library. Softcover. Octavo; VG; Paperback; Spine, white with black print; Cover is clean and bright; Text block clean and tight; "New York 1852"- title page; 365 pages. 1321851. FP New Rockville Stock.

New York: Hurst & Company. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Reissue. No publisher date (ink date dated 1918 on front free endpaper). Ink name on front free endpaper. 320 pp. Color illustration mounted on front board. Author of the first scholarly history of the United States Navy, James Fenimore Cooper had long hoped to commemorate the American Navy by representing its fleet in action. Since no such fleet existed in 1841, he reverted to the Jacobite War of 1745 when the great British and French fleets contested in the English Channel and the colonial and British fleets were one. Ever the experimenter in fiction, Cooper achieved a metaphysical dimension by assigning personal attributes to the ships in combat, and he also implicitly recalled his long friendship with Commodore William Branford Shubrick (much later, Rear Admiral Shubrick) in the story of the friendship between his two admirals―Oates and Bluewater―of the British Navy. The result is an… Read More

New York: W. A. Townsend and Company, 1861 Dark cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front with blindstamp on front and back. 8vo. 8" tall. Illustrated from drawings by Darley - two nicely engraved frontispieces printed on heavy paper with tissue. Tightly bound. 576 pages. Clean. Some wear at corners of cover. 2" at base of spine markered in black. Ex college library in good condition..

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. Good. Early Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Orange cloth with black outline illustrations to front and spine. Black lettering to front and spine. Several nicks to top of spine. Some shelf wear to edges. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. No date. 421 (8) pages plus additional pages of advertising. Clean and tight. .

NY: A.L. Burt Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. Hardcover. No dj pictorial cover, bottom edges has worn spots, front cover sheet is missing, back cover has faded some; 8vo; 532 pages. .

Albany: SUNY Press, 1990. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 511 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good plus dust jacket. First Printing thus. 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1. NOTE: One reviewer stated: "The print in this was copied and is very hard to read. It is a good story by an excellent author. Too bad it represented in such a poor way.". The copy I have has nice, clear, bold type that is easy to read. I am not sure what the reviewer was referring to. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of book binding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Illustrated by Rufus F. Zogbaum. Blind-ruled green cloth, gilt-stamped spine title. Cloth modestly soiled, corners bumped, very good lacking the dustwrapper.

New York: Wm. L. Allison Company. Hardcover. Good. 424p. A burgundy cloth hardcover book in good+ condition. Boards and foredge faintly soiled. Boards are almost imperceptibly bowed. Top corner of page 3 is bent. All pages tanned with age, but text clean and binding tight. Undated vintage edition, ca. 1890s.

THE PRESIDENT PUBLISHING CO.. Hardcover. very good.

D. Appleton. Collectible - Very Good. Condition: Very Good; Hardcover. Blue decorated cloth with gilt printing and decoration. Edition of 1874. The book is in Very Good condition with clean covers and pages along with a tight, square binding.

Paperback / softback. New.

State Univ of New York Pr, 1990-06. Hardcover. Good.

New.