Three books comprise Cooper’s The Pioneers, Mrs. Molesworth’s The Cuckoo Clock and Richard Bird’s The Third Jump & Other Stories, in decorated cloth. The spines name A. L. Burt Company and Blackie & Son on the latter two books. A handwritten letter bearing the signature J. Fenimore Cooper is dated Cooperstown, July 11, 1843. A 1907 gift inscription is also visible.
Moderately worn; The Pioneers has frayed spine ends and rubbed corners; letter foxed and creased along folds.