Lancelot $2,000.00
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1977)
Orange wrapper. Inscribed by the author. Good copy with 1/2 inch closed tear to front wrapper.
Diagnosing the Modern Malaise $400.00
New Orleans: Faust (1985)
One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine with decorated end papers and boards.
Diagnosing the Modern Malaise $750.00
New Orleans: Faust (1985)
One of 50 copies bound with decorated boards and leather spine. Fine.
The Second Coming $2,500.00
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1980)
Very good in green wrapper
The Moviegoer $300.00
Pennsylvania: Franklin Library (1980)
Fine in hunter green leather binding
The Message in the Bottle $150.00
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1975)
Advanced readers copy bookplate on front end paper. Previous owner’s initials and May 1975 on front paper. Top page edge is white. Very good in dust jacket.
Questions They Never Asked Me $300.00
Northridge: Lord John (1979)
One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author. This copy is one with an “O” instead of a “Q” in the word “Questions” on the title page. Very good in decorated boards and cloth spine.
Love in the Ruins $125.00
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1971)
Very good in price clipped dust jacket
Questions They Never Asked Me $950.00
Northridge: Lord John (1979)
One of 50 numbered delux copies signed by the author and bound in full leather.
The Thanatos Syndrome $200.00
Pennsylvania: Franklin Library (1987)
Bound in dark green leather with decoration. Fine.
Walker Percy 1916-1990: Memorial Tributes $125.00
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1991)
Fine in tan wraps. Memorials include Shelby Foote and Eudora Welty.
William Alexander Percy $35.00
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press (2012)
Fine in dust jacket.
In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist.
We follow Percy as he travels from Mississippi around the globe and, always, back again to the Delta. Wise’s exploration brings depth and new meaning to Percy’s already compelling life story–his prominent family’s troubled history, his elite education and subsequent soldiering in World War I, his civic leadership during the Mississippi River flood of 1927, his mentoring of writers Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, and the writing and publication of his classic autobiography, “Lanterns on the Levee.” This biography sets Percy’s life and search for meaning in the context of his history in the Deep South and his experiences in the gay male world of the early twentieth century. In Wise’s hands, these seemingly disparate worlds become one.
Novel Writing in an Apocalytic Time $700.00
New Orleans: Faust (1986)
One of 300 numbered copies signed by Walker Percy. Also, signed by Eudora Welty who wrote the Afterword. Fine with decorated endpapers and cloth boards.
Novel Writing in an Apocalyptic Time $1,250.00
New Orleans: Faust (1986)
One of 100 numbered copies signed by Walker Percy. Also, signed by Eudora Welty who wrote the Afterword. Fine in cloth boards and leather spine.
Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy $50.00
New York: Simon & Schuster (1992)
Fine in dust jacket
Diagnosing the Modern Malaise $400.00
New Orleans: Faust (1985)
One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author with decorated end papers and boards.
Signposts in a Strange Land $50.00
New York, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux (1991)
Near fine in dust jacket.