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(COOPER, James Fenimore). The Wing-and-Wing, or Le Feu-Follet. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1842. Two volumes. Small octavo, modern full brown tree sheep. $675.

First America edition, published only five days after the London first edition.

A novel of the sea, set in Napoleonic Europe. Spiller & Blackburn 34. BAL3901. Bookplates.

Fine condition.