NMLP P-034562 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path

James Fenimore Cooper · Lea & Blanchard (Philadelphia) · 1841

First-edition sets were bound in purple cloth, cut, with printed paper spine labels; copies that have faded or toned with age are sometimes described as brown cloth, but purple is the color recorded for the original binding by Spiller & Blackburn and confirmed by dealers who have examined unfaded copies

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-034562 for "The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path" by James Fenimore Cooper (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034562, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).