Message Bottle Queer Man Language, Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 335 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Black spine with red and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is clipped, has mild shelving wear, stains on the front and rear covers, mild age-toning throughout, and a gold bookstore sticker on the front flap. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges, and mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns, slight cracking along the rear hinge, mild wear along the edges, and light foxing along the edges. Signed "For Dick, all best" by Walker Percy on the front end-page. Shelved Room C. 1393152. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Signed and inscribed by the author in black ink on front free endpaper. First Edition, First Printing. Original publisher's orange cloth binding in a multicolored dust wrapper. Dust wrapper features the colors of red, orange, yellow, white, and black. Dust wrapper protected in a paper-backed Brodart sleeve. 6" x 8 1/2." 335 pages, complete. Bibliography in back. The author's signed inscription reads, "For Terry F[.?], with all best wishes, Walker Percy, New York, May 1975." Dust wrapper and pages and covers of the book are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Pages are slightly age-toned. A mark is on the back panel of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Fine dust wrapper. Walker Percy (1916-1990) was an American author whose areas of study comprised philosophy and semiotics. This collection of essays is an examination of symbols and how they relate to the human mind. The following are the chapter titles: "The Delta Factor," "The Loss of the Creature," "Metaphor as Mistake," "The Man on the Train," "Notes for a Novel About the End of the World," "The Message in the Bottle," "The Mystery of Language," "Toward a Triadic Theory of Meaning," "The Symbolic Structure of Interpersonal Process," "Culture: The Antinomy of the Scientific Method," "Semiotic and a Theory of Knowledge," "Symbol, Consciousness, and Intersubjectivity," "Symbol as Hermeneutic in Existentialism," "Symbol as Need," and "A Theory of Language." Excerpt from back flap: "[Percy] points out that, since language is part of man's singularity, symbolization may be an essential act of the mind. In a period when most psychology textbooks omit the word 'symbol' he discusses the relations of symbol and meaning in 'Symbol, Consciousness, and Intersubjectivity,' 'The Symbolic Structure of Interpersonal Process,' and 'Symbol as Need.'". Inscribed by Author(s).