The Last Gentleman
by Walker Percy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Fine
- Seller
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Bellevue, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
8vo (6 x 8.5) Quarter drab green cloth over black papered boards; silver titles, green topstain, 409pp. Dust jacket is unclipped (5.95) and in fine condition. Boards show tape residue marks to edges and some mild spots of residue and rubbing to endpapers. Else firmly bound with clean text; a presentable copy.
The second novel from a giant of both contemporary Southern and Catholic literature, following his classic "The Moviegoer." Both novels, as well as the following "Love in the Ruins" comprise a kind of trilogy of middle aged protagonists reckoning with historical family dramas and the exigencies of post-modernity. An uncommon Percy title in 1st edition form.
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- Bookseller
- Heaven-Haven Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B-20
- Title
- The Last Gentleman
- Author
- Walker Percy
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
- Date Published
- 1966
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts; Southern Lit;
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