The Water-Witch, or The Skimmer of the Seas

The Dresden printing (before September 18, 1830) is the true first printing of the text; Spiller & Blackburn call The Water-Witch "the only genuine Continental first" among Cooper's novels printed abroad, since it was actually issued for sale in Dresden about a month before the London edition and roughly three months before the first American edition. London (Colburn & Bentley, October 14, 1830) is the first English trade edition; the Carey & Lea Philadelphia sheets, though title-paged 1831, were released December 11, 1830.