The Pilot: retailer A Tale of the Sea by J. Fenimore Cooper (1881) hardcover book

J. Fenimore Cooper - The Pilot: A Tales of the Sea

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881 (first published in 1859). Hardcover. 8vo. No dust jacket. Red boards with black decoration and gold lettering. Illustrated endpapers. 486pp. Pencil markings to the lower edge of page 486. Ex-libris from the Odd Fellows Library of Mendocino, California. Staining and light warping to pages. "Hi There" has been written in orange (paint?) onto the front endpaper retailer (see photos). Poor condition. Minor separation of the text-block from the spine. Creasing, toning, scratching, smudging, and discoloration to the outer/inner boards, endpapers, pages of the text, and the text-block edge.

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