John Kennedy Toole Walker Percy (60 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Reissue Edition; Seventh Printing. 405 pages; light smudges to the exterior edges of textblock. Pencil markings on half title page. Moderate rubbing to the covers. No markings on text pages. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Condition: Good. Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 0.62.

Hard cover. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. reprint. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 480 p. Audience: General/trade. near new.

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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 416 pages. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Grove Press, 1985. First paperback edition, tenth printing. Fair condition. Written by John Kennedy Toole and published posthumously in 1980, the novel became a cult classic and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. Its protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly, is an unforgettable, larger-than-life character whose misadventures and scathing critiques of the world around him provide sharp social commentary. The novel's blend of humor, pathos, and keen observation makes it a distinctive voice in American literature, and its story of how the manuscript was championed by Toole's mother and brought to publication by author Walker Percy adds to its legacy. The novel is celebrated not only for its literary merits but also for its role in highlighting the richness of Southern literature and the complexities of human experience.

Grove Press, 1982. First paperback edition, seventh printing. Good Plus condition. Written by John Kennedy Toole and published posthumously in 1980, the novel became a cult classic and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. Its protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly, is an unforgettable, larger-than-life character whose misadventures and scathing critiques of the world around him provide sharp social commentary. The novel's blend of humor, pathos, and keen observation makes it a distinctive voice in American literature, and its story of how the manuscript was championed by Toole's mother and brought to publication by author Walker Percy adds to its legacy. The novel is celebrated not only for its literary merits but also for its role in highlighting the richness of Southern literature and the complexities of human experience.

Grove Press, 1986. First paperback edition, eleventh printing. Good condition. Previous owner's name present. Written by John Kennedy Toole and published posthumously in 1980, the novel became a cult classic and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. Its protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly, is an unforgettable, larger-than-life character whose misadventures and scathing critiques of the world around him provide sharp social commentary. The novel's blend of humor, pathos, and keen observation makes it a distinctive voice in American literature, and its story of how the manuscript was championed by Toole's mother and brought to publication by author Walker Percy adds to its legacy. The novel is celebrated not only for its literary merits but also for its role in highlighting the richness of Southern literature and the complexities of human experience.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very Good++/Very Good+ Light green cloth hardcover. Sixth printing. 1981. Dust jacket has light edgewear and 1" closed tear on foot of front cover. Nice solid copy.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Sanjulián (Clemente, Manuel Pérez); Morance, Peter (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. First US paperback edition. Black Cat Book. Grove B-452. Originally published in the US by Louisiana State University Press in 1980. Three page foreword by Walker Percy. The spine has some reading creasing and the title lettering is faded. The front cover has reading creasing down the left side next to the spine and there is a little discolouration to the rear cover. Insides of covers and pages browned but otherwise unmarked. Cover painting by Sanjulian (Manuel Pérez Clemente) and cover design by Peter Morance. First printing.

Grove Press, 1982. First paperback edition, fourth printing. Good Plus condition. Written by John Kennedy Toole and published posthumously in 1980, the novel became a cult classic and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. Its protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly, is an unforgettable, larger-than-life character whose misadventures and scathing critiques of the world around him provide sharp social commentary. The novel's blend of humor, pathos, and keen observation makes it a distinctive voice in American literature, and its story of how the manuscript was championed by Toole's mother and brought to publication by author Walker Percy adds to its legacy. The novel is celebrated not only for its literary merits but also for its role in highlighting the richness of Southern literature and the complexities of human experience.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book has mild rubbing and bumping to edges of spine and corners of cover, faint toning and foxing to edgeblock, mild scuffing to cover, and a small spot of sticker residue to front cover. otherwise book is in very good condition with a bright cover, clean pages, and a strong binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus; First Printing. 20th Anniversary Edition; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 338 pages; 2000 LSU Press. HC/DJ. 1st edition, thus: 1st printing of the 20th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Codrescu. Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright color pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $24.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Feels and appears generally unread; no marks of any kind. Just a hint of shelf evidence to jacket edges. About as new. NF/NF.

Hardcover. Octavo, 338 pages. In Very Good minus condition, with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Bound in tan cloth boards, with black lettering to spine. Moderate shelf wear to boards, including bumping to head, tail, and edges, with cracking to bottom edges of boards; scuffing and age-toning to text block; inscription from previous owner in red ink to front free endpaper. Dust jacket protected by a mylar covering; spine black (age-toned dark green) with white lettering. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket, including age-toning to spine and rubbing to covers; price cut; green circular sticker to front flap. Shelved in Hardcover Fiction. Second State dust jacket indicated by Chicago Sun-Times quote on the back cover of the dust jacket, and lack of "stars in the night sky" effect near title lettering on the front cover. 1387277. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. First Edition, Third Printing, Second State.

Grove Press, 1981. First paperback edition, second printing. Good Plus condition. Written by John Kennedy Toole and published posthumously in 1980, the novel became a cult classic and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. Its protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly, is an unforgettable, larger-than-life character whose misadventures and scathing critiques of the world around him provide sharp social commentary. The novel's blend of humor, pathos, and keen observation makes it a distinctive voice in American literature, and its story of how the manuscript was championed by Toole's mother and brought to publication by author Walker Percy adds to its legacy. The novel is celebrated not only for its literary merits but also for its role in highlighting the richness of Southern literature and the complexities of human experience.

Grove Press, 1981. First paperback edition, third printing. Very Good Plus condition. Written by John Kennedy Toole and published posthumously in 1980, the novel became a cult classic and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. Its protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly, is an unforgettable, larger-than-life character whose misadventures and scathing critiques of the world around him provide sharp social commentary. The novel's blend of humor, pathos, and keen observation makes it a distinctive voice in American literature, and its story of how the manuscript was championed by Toole's mother and brought to publication by author Walker Percy adds to its legacy. The novel is celebrated not only for its literary merits but also for its role in highlighting the richness of Southern literature and the complexities of human experience.

Grove Press, 1981. First paperback edition, third printing. Very Good Plus condition. Written by John Kennedy Toole and published posthumously in 1980, the novel became a cult classic and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. Its protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly, is an unforgettable, larger-than-life character whose misadventures and scathing critiques of the world around him provide sharp social commentary. The novel's blend of humor, pathos, and keen observation makes it a distinctive voice in American literature, and its story of how the manuscript was championed by Toole's mother and brought to publication by author Walker Percy adds to its legacy. The novel is celebrated not only for its literary merits but also for its role in highlighting the richness of Southern literature and the complexities of human experience.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. 2004 LSU Press hard cover - Large Print Edition - 1st printing THUS - a fine clean like new copy with like new dust jacket now in mylar cover - enjoy.

Grove Press, 1982. First paperback edition, first printing. Good Plus condition. Written by John Kennedy Toole and published posthumously in 1980, the novel became a cult classic and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. Its protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly, is an unforgettable, larger-than-life character whose misadventures and scathing critiques of the world around him provide sharp social commentary. The novel's blend of humor, pathos, and keen observation makes it a distinctive voice in American literature, and its story of how the manuscript was championed by Toole's mother and brought to publication by author Walker Percy adds to its legacy. The novel is celebrated not only for its literary merits but also for its role in highlighting the richness of Southern literature and the complexities of human experience.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, fourth printing of Toole's Pulitzer Prize winning classic, published eleven years after his death with the help of his mother and Walker Percy, who contributed the forward. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Publisher's tan cloth boards, spine titled in black, pp. xii, 338. Pen mark to page following the forward, else a fine copy in an about very good, price-clipped dust jacket showing shelfwear, chipping and a light dampstain to the verso of the back panel, protected in archival mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. 338 pages. Hardcover in a dark brown illustrated dust jacket. The jacket is a bit rubbed and shows edge wear. Jacket is not price-clipped and bears the original price of "$12.95." Edges are lightly bumped, and the jacket spine is especially rubbed near the foot. The front cover of the book is slightly bowed up at the fore edge. The text block is sound with secure inner hinges. Light foxing to the outside edges of the text block. The text is clean. Stated Second Printing on the copyright page. Signed on the front flyleaf by a local North Carolina author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Lindlof, Ed (Wrapper Illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. 1980 at title page and copyright page. Stated eighth printing. Oatmeal colored full cloth boards, black stylized spine titles, fine. Matte mustard lime endpapers. Pages fine; no writing. Bind fine, square. Dust wrapper, slight wear; unclipped 14.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Wrapper features gold medallion at front panel: "Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction". Sadly, the author, John Kennedy Toole, took his own life at 32, after facing consistent rejection from nearly every American publisher. Toole's mother, finally was able to have her son's work posthumously published; and, as fate would have it, the satirical novel won the Pulitzer Prize. "A masterwork of comedy. pungent slapstick, sature and intellectual incongruities. make for a grand comic fugue" (New York Time). Presented here is "a great slob of a man in violent revolt against the entire twentieth century!" This book's unusual path to success began in 1976 when John Kennedy Toole's mother Thelma, using a walker, hobbled into the office of novelist Walker Percy at Loyola University. She was followed by a chauffeur carrying a manuscript that she told Mr. Percy was a ''masterpiece''. Percy reluctantly agreed to read it. He became entranced as he read, and decided that the novel was ''a major achievement, a huge comic-satiric-tragic one-of-a-kind rendering of life in New Orleans.'' After several more publishers rejected the book, Louisiana State University Press agreed to take a chance with a first printing of only 2,500. The soon to be Pulitzer Prize winner went on to 50,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 600,000 in paperback within three years. Manufactured in the United States of America. 338 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

Grove Press, 1982. First paperback edition, first printing. Good condition with vintage New Orleans and Ignatius referenced gift inscription on inner cover. Signed Walker Percy bookplate laid in. Written by John Kennedy Toole and published posthumously in 1980, the novel became a cult classic and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. Its protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly, is an unforgettable, larger-than-life character whose misadventures and scathing critiques of the world around him provide sharp social commentary. The novel's blend of humor, pathos, and keen observation makes it a distinctive voice in American literature, and its story of how the manuscript was championed by Toole's mother and brought to publication by author Walker Percy adds to its legacy. The novel is celebrated not only for its literary merits but also for its role in highlighting the richness of Southern literature and the complexities of human experience.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Lindlof, Ed (Wrapper Illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. 1980 at title page and copyright page. Stated: "Seventh Printing (June, 1981). Tan with greenish tint, full cloth boards, black stylized spine titles, fine. Pages fine; no writing. Bind fine, square; remains tightly bound and relatively as new. Dust wrapper, fine; unclipped 12.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Matches first printing in design and quality with classic Ed Lindloff wrapper illustration; identical to the third printing with Chicago Sun-Times blurb at back jacket panel. Sadly, the author, John Kennedy Toole, took his own life at 32, after facing consistent rejection from nearly every American publisher. Toole's mother, finally was able to have her son's work posthumously published; and, as fate would have it, the satirical novel won the Pulitzer Prize. "A masterwork of comedy. pungent slapstick, sature and intellectual incongruities. make for a grand comic fugue" (New York Time). Presented here is "a great slob of a man in violent revolt against the entire twentieth century!" This book's unusual path to success began in 1976 when John Kennedy Toole's mother Thelma, using a walker, hobbled into the office of novelist Walker Percy at Loyola University. She was followed by a chauffeur carrying a manuscript that she told Mr. Percy was a ''masterpiece''. Percy reluctantly agreed to read it. He became entranced as he read, and decided that the novel was ''a major achievement, a huge comic-satiric-tragic one-of-a-kind rendering of life in New Orleans.'' After several more publishers rejected the book, Louisiana State University Press agreed to take a chance with a first printing of only 2,500. The soon to be Pulitzer Prize winner went on to 50,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 600,000 in paperback within three years. Manufactured in the United States of America. 338 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1980 at title page and copyright page. Stated second printing. Light green full cloth boards, black stylized spine titles, moderate shelf, corner wear. Pages generally very good; no writing. Couple at back, lower text block with moderate discoloration. Light olive green endpapers. Bind fine, square. Scarce near very good second (2nd) printing. Sadly, the author, John Kennedy Toole, took his own life at 32, after facing consistent rejection from nearly every American publisher. Toole's mother, finally was able to have her son's work posthumously published; and, as fate would have it, the satirical novel won the Pulitzer Prize. "A masterwork of comedy. pungent slapstick, sature and intellectual incongruities. make for a grand comic fugue" (New York Time). Presented here is "a great slob of a man in violent revolt against the entire twentieth century!" This book's unusual path to success began in 1976 when John Kennedy Toole's mother Thelma, using a walker, hobbled into the office of novelist Walker Percy at Loyola University. She was followed by a chauffeur carrying a manuscript that she told Mr. Percy was a ''masterpiece''. Percy reluctantly agreed to read it. He became entranced as he read, and decided that the novel was ''a major achievement, a huge comic-satiric-tragic one-of-a-kind rendering of life in New Orleans.'' After several more publishers rejected the book, Louisiana State University Press agreed to take a chance with a first printing of only 2,500. The soon to be Pulitzer Prize winner went on to 50,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 600,000 in paperback within three years. Manufactured in the United States of America. 338 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original white cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth bright and fresh to the boards but toned to the spine (most likely with a reaction to the acidity in the paper) as the book otherwise feels unread. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the price-clipped dustwrapper that is otherwise without loss or tears. An excellent example. The author's only novel, a posthumous published comic masterpiece. The British first edition, of which 1500 copies were printed is uncommon. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lindlof, Ed (Wrapper Illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by professor and author Walker Percy on tipped-in leaf prior half-title page: "Walker Percy." Percy, a professor and author himself, was instrumental in having this discovered gem miraculously published. 1980 at title page and copyright. Stated second printing. Light beige w/hint of green, full cloth boards, black stylized spine titles, light shelf wear. Pages near fine with attractive toning; no writing. Light olive endpapers. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Original first edition dust wrapper without Sun-Times review blurb at back panel, moderate edge wear, rub, crease; unclipped 12.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Scarce very good second printing in same first edition wrapper. The author of this hilarious satire, John Kennedy Toole, took his own life at 32 after facing consistent rejection from nearly every American publisher. Toole's mother, finally was able to have her son's work posthumously published; and, as fate would have it, the satirical novel won the Pulitzer Prize. "A masterwork of comedy. pungeant slapstick, sature and intellectual incongruities. make for a grand comic fugue" (New York Time). Presented here is "a great slob of a man in violent revolt against the entire twentieth century!" This book's unusual path to success began in 1976 when John Kennedy Toole's mother Thelma, using a walker, hobbled into the office of novelist Walker Percy at Loyola University. She was followed by a chauffeur carrying a manuscript that she told Mr. Percy was a ''masterpiece''. Percy reluctantly agreed to read it. He became entranced as he read, and decided that the novel was ''a major achievement, a huge comic-satiric-tragic one-of-a-kind rendering of life in New Orleans.'' After several more publishers rejected the book, Louisiana State University Press agreed to take a chance with a first printing of only 2,500. The soon to be Pulitzer Prize winner went on to 50,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 600,000 in paperback within three years. Manufactured in the United States of America. 338 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Signed by Contributor.