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Easton Press leather edition of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Illustrated by Edward A. Wilson, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN series, published in 1979. Bound in deep hunter green leather, the book has ivory moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, a satin book marker, gold gilding on three---in FINE condition. James Fenimore Cooper, who lived from 1789 –1851, was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. "The Last of the Mohicans" takes place in 1757 during the French and Indian War in the Adirondack Mountains in what was then the British colony of New York. Three frontiersmen are traveling west to find a new home. The oldest is Chingachgook, the last chief of the Mohican tribe. With him is his son, UNCAS, and an adopted son, a white man named Nathaniel Poe, who also goes by the name “Nathaniel Hawkeye." 377 pages. I offer Combined shipping.