LANCELOT
by Percy, Walker
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374183139
- ISBN 13
- 9780374183134
- Seller
-
Canandaigua, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The fourth of Percy's novels is this study of the son of a distinguished Southern family, famous college football player, Rhodes scholar, disenchanted liberal lawyer and master of Belle Isle, a New Orleans showplace and tourist attraction, whose world begins to fall apart when he accidentally learns his younger daughter is not his. Lancelot is determined to get proof of his wife's continuing infidelity on film even as a hurricane nears the Louisiana coast and Belle Isle; small price sticker on inside front cover, o/w bright orange boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows one-inch closed tear in top edge of back panel, o/w only minor surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003730
- Title
- LANCELOT
- Author
- Percy, Walker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0374183139
- ISBN 13
- 9780374183134
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- MODERN NOVEL, FIRST EDITION, NEW ORLEANS, ADULTERY, LOUISIANA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Novel; Suspense; Fine Literature;
Terms of Sale
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
All books subject to prior sale. All books returnable within two weeks for any reason. Please return by USPS (media mail rate) and note the reason for return. All sales subject to applicable taxes.
About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
Glossary
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- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.