Franklin Library: Last of the Mohicans: N.C. WYETH: Illustrator: James F. Cooper

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Franklin Library: Last of the Mohicans: N.C. WYETH: Illustrator: James F. Cooper:
$26.00

Franklin Library FULL leather edition of James Femimore Cooper\'s \"The Last of the Mohicans,\" Illustrated by N.C. WYETH, one of the 100 GREATEST MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE series, published in 1977. Bound in acamel tan leather, the book has chocolate brownsilk end leaves, hubbed spine, satin book marker, gold gilding on three---innear FINE condition---except for a small dark streak on back board. 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.