Winfield and Cooper?

[Dante'sJuliet]

I was shoping (while broke) at an antique store the other day, when I came across two books that I've never heard of before but looked simply fascinating. One was The Rover Boys, by Arthur M. Winfield; and the other is The Spy, by J. Fenimore Cooper. The first one was copyrighted in 1913 (at least, the copy I found was) and the other was missing a few pages at the beginning, so I'm not sure what the copyright date is. If there's any way at all that you can get these books, please do!

[Dante'sJuliet]

ummmm, hello? Have I asked something forbidden and whatnot? :confused:

[Jay]

Hi there, ever heard of Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/)? If you think a book might already be out of copyright there's a good chance they have it there if it's not here. I'm pretty sure you'd also be able to find
that etext somewhere else on the net if you tried (if it's out of copyright).

The Spy (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9845) by J.F. Cooper
From what I saw on the net I can say that The Rover Boys is a series of a few books, looking for any in particular?
A few of them are here (http://unofficial.umkc.edu/crossonm/roverboys.htm) or source page for volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 17 and 19 (http://www.netwrx1.com/CherryAmes/resources.html). I'm sure if you TRIED, there's a good chance you'd find all of them. I don't mean to be nasty or mean but if you could have been bothered you might have already got all of them by now instead of waiting till someone else decides to.

[Dante'sJuliet]

Thank you thank you thank you a billion times over. And I'm sorry that I didn't go looking for the book myself, I didn't know that that's how they get put up. I had no idea where the came from, but if I had known it was just the web I would have gone to look myself. Thanks a lot!

[PeterL]

The Spy was Cooper's first attempt at a novel. I have never read it, but I understand that it was even worse than his later attempts.