Description
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Deerslayer or the First Warpath. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929) Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.
Quarto. xii, 462 pages. Hardcover with black cloth-covered boards and lithographic paste-down on front cover. Ten illustrations including paste-down and title page. Untrimmed fore-edge, illustrated end-papers. Top edge stained red.
Condition: Binding tight and square. Spine bright. Remains of tape on paste-down. slight soiling on bottom edge at fore-edge. monor scuffing on rear cover, spine ends and corners hardly bumped.
“Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America’s greatest illustrators. During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, 25 of them for Scribner’s, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known. The first of these, Treasure Island, was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a realist painter just as the camera and photography began to compete with his craft. Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly. Wyeth, who was both a painter and an illustrator, understood the difference, and said in 1908, “Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.”
“He is the father of Andrew Wyeth and the grandfather of Jamie Wyeth, both known American painters.” – Wikipedia
“Cooper was one of the most popular 19th-century American authors, and his work was admired greatly throughout the world. While on his death bed, the Austrian composer Franz Schubert wanted most to read more of Cooper’s novels. Honoré de Balzac, the French novelist and playwright, admired him greatly. Henry David Thoreau, while attending Harvard, incorporated some of Cooper’s style in his own work. D. H. Lawrence believed that Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Maupassant, and Flaubert were all “so very obvious and coarse, besides the lovely, mature and sensitive art of Fennimore Cooper.” Lawrence called Deerslayer “one of the most beautiful and perfect books in the world: flawless as a jewel and of gem-like concentration.” – Wikipedia
