London: Croome & Co., 12, St. Bride Street Ludgate Circus EC. No Edition Stated . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 7 1/4" X 4 3/4 . Preface dated December 1839. Book features red boards, black decorations including leaves and flowers, gilt title block with title in red, author in black. Spine has title and author in gilt blocks with text in red, decorative black flowers and leaves, 2/6 (price?) at base of spine. Single centred black decoration on rear board. 472 pp., small print, front pastedown and ffep have letters WMC 196 in immature script. Verso ffep has heraldic(?) crest in red and blue in what could be watercolours. Rear pastedown has crossed out, purple stamp and address of R.W. Dale, Draper & Stationer. Both hinges are gauze only, as is the text block at pp.280-281. Digital pictures available on request. Bookseller's Inventory # 091134.

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Bookseller: Lower Beverley Better Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 001134
Title: The Pathfinder or The Inland Sea
Author: Cooper, J. Fenimore
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: No Edition Stated
Publisher: Croome & Co., 12, St. Bride Street Ludgate Circus EC
Place of Publication: London
Size: 7 1/4" X 4 3/4

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An online bookstore that just grew from a combination of a love of books, a desire to save them from landfill and an inability to bypass yard sales. A considerable percentage of my inventory is signed editions. I also take pride in my Canadiana catalogue.

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Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...