Love in the Ruins
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Signed seventh printing. Very good in very good jacket. A satirical novel, centered around Dr. Thomas More, a conflicted Catholic psychiatrist, who finds himself in the midst of personal and societal chaos.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Signed seventh printing. Very good in very good jacket. A satirical novel, centered around Dr. Thomas More, a conflicted Catholic psychiatrist, who finds himself in the midst of personal and societal chaos.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977. First printing. Very good plus in like DJ. A very nice and tight copy. A disenchanted lawyer finds himself in a mental asylum with memories that don't seem worth remembering.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977. Signed First Edition of Percy's fourth novel. Very fine in like DJ. A disenchanted lawyer finds himself in a mental asylum with memories that don't seem worth remembering.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977. In bright orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine. VG+.
News York: 1977. First. First ed, first ptg; signed by author at title page. Copy includes Maple Street Book Shop bookmark and a Jackson, Miss. Clarion Ledger clipping -- article by Billy Skelton, "Percy novels satirical chronicle of a fallen world."
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. First printing. Dust jacket over red cloth boards with gold titling on spine. Bright red top stain. Percy's Lancelot chronicles the mental spiral of the titular character, a lawyer who finds himself in a mental institution, as he grapples with the discovery.....
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. First Edition, later printing. In black cloth with DJ. DJ shows minor wear, blue top stain has bled through into several pages and rear of DJ. Otherwise a nice copy. A man from the Mississippi Delta who lives in New York is detached from his.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. First Edition, later printing. In black cloth with DJ. VG/VG+.
New York: Avon Books, 1978. First Avon printing, as stated. In wraps with maroon sprayed edges. A man from the Mississippi Delta feels detached from his roots while living in New York, until one day he falls in love at first sight. Some light water damage to.....
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983. First Edition. First Printing. Large clip on DJ.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983. Signed Limited Edition, #148 and #56 of 350. Very good in slipcase; no DJ as issued. Percy perceptively tells the story of modern man's alienation from the very world he inhabits in this mock self-help book.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971. First printing. Near fine in like DJ. Dr. Tom More embarks on an unforgettable odyssey to cure mankind's spiritual flu with a stethoscope he created.
First edition, seventh printing (1988). NF in NF DJ. Signed by Walker Percy over his name on the title page. Open signatures by this author are uncommon. (This copy is from his daughter's stock.).
New York: Avon Books, 1978. First Avon Printing, as stated. In wraps with red sprayed edges. "The adventures of a bad Catholic at a time near the end of the world". A satirical novel, centered around Dr. Thomas More, a conflicted Catholic psychiatrist, who finds himself in the midst.....
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. Signed eighth printing. Very good condition in like DJ. Signed on title page. In this collection of essays, Percy attempts to separate information into two categories: knowledge and news.
All 19th printings (1995). Most copies pristine, except a few with dings on the front cover.
Yale University Press, 1915. First Edition, first printing. White cloth over boards w/o jacket as issued. Bottom corner bruised and shows across front cover and rear corners. Includes blurb clipping.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980. First ed, first ptg. Near fine in dust jacket. Not signed.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980. VG+ in dust jacket. Not signed. *One of the copies has a price clipped DJ* Remember the wanderer in NYC from The Last Gentleman? He's now middle-aged and depressed, but through a relationship with a young woman who has escaped from a mental institution, Will.....
New York: Pocket Books, 1981. First Pocket Books printing, as stated. In wraps. Returning to the universe of Percy's The Last Gentleman, The Second Coming finds protagonist Will Barrett struggling with depression. After meeting a young woman who has escaped from a mental institution, he begins a journey of.....