Male : Novelist who produced stirring adventure stories. Squire pioneer

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Otsego Hall, New York state

Date of Birth : 1789 Date of Death : 1851 Age : 62

Pseudonyms : Jane Morgan

Other Work : Midshipman in the Navy

Education : Yale (dismissed from)

NOVELS
1820-1825
Precaution (1820 Goodrich NY) - 2 vols
(1821 Henry Colburn) - 3 vols. Anon (1850 Bentley's Standard Novels) - Revised Ed
The Spy : A Tale of Neutral Ground (1821 Wiley & Halstead, NY) 2 vols
(1822 Whittaker) - 3 vols (1849 Bentley's Standard Novels) - Revised Ed. Anon
The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna (1823 Charles Wiley, NY) - 2 vols
(1823 Simpkin) - 3 vols (1849 Bentley's Standard Novels) - Revised Ed. Anon
The Pilot : A tale of the Sea (1824 Charles Wiley NY) - 2 vols (1824 John Miller) - 3 vols
Lionel Lincoln, or The Leaguer of Boston (1825 C Wiley NY) - 2 vols. One dated '1824'
(1825 John Miller) - 3 vols (1854 Bentley's Standard Novels) - Revised Ed

1826-1830
The Last of the Mohicans : A Narrative of 1757
(1826 Carey & Lea, Phila) - 2 vols
(1826 Paris) - 3 vols
(1826 John Miller) - 3 vols
Offered in 1996 for £475
(1849 Bentley's Standard Novels) - Revised Ed
[Filmed in 1936 & 1992]
The Prairie (1827 Carey, Lea & Carey, Phila) - 2 vols (1827 Henry Colburn) - 3 vols
(1827 Paris) - 3 vols
The Red Rover : A Tale (1827 Hector Bossange, Paris - 3 vols) (1827 Henry Colburn) - 3 vols
(1828 Carey, Lea & Carey) - 2 vols (1853 Bentley's Standard Novels) - Revised Ed
The Borderers : A Tale (1829 Colburn & Bentley) - later publ as "Wept .."
The Wept of Wish Ton-Wish (1829 Carey, Lea & Carey) - 2 vols (1829 Henry Colburn) - 3 vols
(1849 Bentley's Standard Novels) - Revised Ed
The Water-Witch, or the Skimmer of the Seas (1830 Carey, Lea & Carey) - 2 vols
(1830 Walther, Dresden) - 3 vols (1830 Henry Colburn) - 3 vols

1831-1840
The Bravo : A Venetian Story (1831 Carey & Lea) - 2 vols (1831 Colburn & Bentley) - 3 vols
(1851 Bentley's Standard Novels) - Revised Ed
The Heidenmauer, or The Benedictines (1832 Carey & Lea) - 2 vols (1832 Colburn & Bentley) - 3 vols
(1854 Bentley's) - Anon. Revised Ed
The Headsman, or the Abbaye des Vignerons (1833 Carey, Lea & Blanchard) - 2 vols
(1833 Bentley) - 3 vols
The Monkins (1835 Carey, Lea & Blanchard) - 2 vols (1835 Bentley) - 3 vols
Homeward Bound, or The Chase - A Tale of the Sea (1838 Carey, Lea & Blanchard) - 2 vols
(1838 Bentley) - 3 vols (1855 Bentley) - Revised Ed
Eve Effingham, or Home as Found (1838 Lea & Blanchard) - 2 vols (1838 Bentley) - 3 vols
The Pathfinder, or the Inland Sea (1840 Lea & Blanchard) - 2 vols (1840 Bentley) - 3 vols
(1840 Bentley's Std Novels) - Revised Ed
Mercedes of Castile, or The Voyage to Cathay (1840 Lea & Blanchard) - 2 vols
(1841 Bentley) - 3 vols

1841-1850
The Deerslayer (1841 Lea & Blanchard) - 2 vols (1841 Bentley) - 3 vols
The Two Admirals : A Tale of the Sea (1842 Bentley) - 3 vols (1842 Lea & Blanchard) - 2 vols
The Winf-and-Wing (1842 L & B) - 2 vols (1842 Bentley) - 3 vols
Wyandotte, or The Hutted Knol (1843 L & B) - 2 vols. pb (1843 Bentley) - 3 vols
(1850 Bentley's Standard Novels) - revised Ed
Afloat and Ashore, or The Adventures of Miles Wallingford (1844 The author) - 2 vols pb
(1844 Bentley) - 3 vols (1854 Bentley's Std Novels) - Revised Ed
Afloat and Ashore : Second Series (1844 Burgess Stringer, NY) - 2 vols pb (1844 Bentley) - 3 vols
Satanstoe (1845 Burgess Stringer) - 2 vols pb (1845 Bentley) - 3 vols
The Chainbearer, or the Littlepage Manuscripts (1845 Bentley) - 3 vols (1845 BS) - 2 vols pb
Ravensnest, or the Redskins (1846 Bentley - 3 vols)
The Redskins, or Indian & Injin (1846 Burgess Stringer) - 2 vols pb
The Crater : A Tale of the Pacific (1847 BS) - 2 vols pb (1847 Bentley) - 3 vols
Jack Tier (1848 BS) - 2 vols pb (1848 Bentley - as "Captain Spike") - 3 vols
The Oak Openings, or The Bee-Hunter (1848 BS) - 2 vols pb (1848 Bentley) - 3 vols
The Sea Lions, or the Lost sealers (1849 Stringer & Townsend) - 2 vols
The Sea Lions, or the Lost Sealers (1849 Bentley) - 3 vols
The Ways of the Hour (1850 Putnam) (1850 Bentley) - 3 vols

COLLECTED FICTION
The Works of J Fenimore Cooper (1849-51 NY) - 32 vols
Cooper's Novels (1859-61 Townsend, NY) - 32 vols
J Fenimore Cooper's Works (1876-84 Hurd & Houghton, NY) - 32 vols
The Works of J Fenimore Cooper (1895-96 Putnam) - 33 Vols. The Mohawk Ed
Works (c1900 Putnam) - 32 vols. Ltd Ed 1000
Works (c1900 Knickerbocker Press, NY) - 33 vols

MISCELLANEOUS
1823-1830
Tales for Fifteen (1823 NY) - by 'Jane Morgan'
Notions of the Americans (1828 Henry Colburn) (1828 Carey, Lea & Carey) - 2 vols. Anon

1831-1835
Letters of J Fenimore Cooper to Gen. Lafayette (1831 Paris) - pamphlet
A Letter to His Countrymen (1834 John Wiley NY) - boards

1836-1840
Sketches of Switzerland (By "an American') (1836 Carey, Lea & Carey) (1836 Bentley) - 2 vols
Sketches of Switzerland : Part Second (1836 C, L & C) (1836 Bentley)
Gleanings in Europe : France (1837 C,L & Blanchard) - 2 vols
Gleanings in Europe : France (1837 Bentley)
Gleanings in Europe : England (1837 C, L & B) - 2 vols (1837 Bentley)
Gleanings in Italy (1838 C, L & B) - 2 vols (1838 Bentley)
The American Democrat (1838 H & E Phinney,NY) - cloth
The Chronicles of Cooperstown (1838 H & E Phinney) - cloth. - Anon
The History of the Navy of the United States of America (1839 Philadelphia)
(1839 Galignani, Paris) - 2 vols
The History of the Navy of the United States of America (1839 Bentley) - 2 vols

1841-1850
(Ed) Ned Myers, or A Life Before the Mast (1843 Lea & Blanchard) (1843 Bentley - 2 vols)
Le Mouchoir : An Autobiographical Romance (1843 NY) - pb
Le Mouchaoir (as The French Governess) (1843 Bentley)
The Battle of Lake Erie (1843 W & H Phinney) - pb
Proceedings of the Naval Court Martial in the Case of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (1844 NY)
Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers (1846 Carey & Hart) - 2 vols

After 1851
The Home Book of the Picturesque (1852 NY)
Pages and Pictures (1861 Townsend, NY)
Stories of the World, or Adventures of a Leatherstocking (1863 NY)
Stories of the Sea : Being Narratives of Adventure (1863 J G Gregory, NY)
The Correspondence of James Fenimore Cooper (1922 Yale Univ Press) - 2 vols. 250
The Last of the Mohicans (1925 Scribner) -N C Wyeth
The Spy : A Tale of Neutral Ground (1929 Bowling Green Press, NY) - 3 vols. William Cotton
New York (1930 Payson, NY) - Ltd Ed 750
The Last of the Mohicans (1932 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Edward Wilson
The Prairie (1940 Ltd Eds Club, Manasha WI) - 1500. John Steuart Curry
The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper (1960-7 Harvard Univ Press) - 6 vols
The Deerslayer (1961 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Edward A Wilson
The Spy : A Tale of Neutral Ground (1963 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Henry C Pitz
The Pathfinder (1965 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Richard M Powers
The Pilot (1968 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Robert M Quackenbush

READING
James Grossman : James Fenimore Cooper (1950 Methuen)
Robert E Spiller and Philip C Blackburn : A Descriptive Bibliography of the Writings of J F C
(1934 Bowker, NY) - 500