Hardcover. 

No dust jacket.

Minor cover wear. Nice leather spine and edges - little wear.

Clean unmarked text. 

Tight binding.

Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts

In this final volume of the Littlepage Manuscripts, a group of Native Americans comes to the assistance of the landowning Littlepage family as they defend their estate, Ravensnest, from attacks by "Injins," anti-renters disguised as Indians. In that both have become dispossessed of their land and power, this union is both logical and appropriate considering Cooper's thinking by the mid 1840's. For, by The Redskins, landholders, the foundation of Cooper's stable republic, and the natives had historically become ineffectual inhabitants of the New World. Both the landed gentry and the Indians had become "relics" of an older age who could not adapt, were not invited to adapt, or did not care to adapt to the economic and social present and future the Jacksonian experience initiated (Bewley 67-68).

229 pages

 

(EB 2)