Second Coming by Walker Percy, Signed (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, second printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Signed by Walker Percy on the front end page. Moderate wear to the dust jacket with creasing and foxing. Moderate wear to the boards. Tight binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed and inscribed by author.

Hardcover. Early Trade Edition. Octavo, 360 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine gold with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$12.95." Mild tearing along edges of dust jacket, primarily at head and tail of spine. Mild scuffing to dust jacket. Minor general shelf wear to boards. Spine slightly cocked. Light wear to bottom edge of textblock. Inscribed by Percy on front free endpaper. Signed flat by Percy on title page. Shelved in Hardcover Fiction. 1400367. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Second Printing. Inscribed 'to Kathy with best wishes.' Solid and tight. Second printing. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Red cloth. 8vo. Printed gold dust jacket with unclipped flap. Second printing. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf. The spine is a bit cocked else the covers are very good with light wear. The top edge of the textbock has some spotting else the text is very good and clean. The jacket is very good with some wear to the spine tips. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo in clean, bright jacket. Flap is not clipped. 'A limited first edition of this book has been privately printed.' This is the first/first trade edition. Orange cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Tan end papers. Signed by Walker Percy on title page. Three tiny spots of soiling top textblock edge. Tight binding. [360 pages]. Signed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 360 pages; [signed] 1980 Farrar, Straus and Giroux. HC/DJ. Soundly bound and clean in original dust jacket with publisher's $12.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Inscribed and signed by Percy on the front flyleaf. Very mild shelf lean in the spine. Light dust spotting/foxing to top and front edge of the page block. Jacket lightly shelf rubbed/worn at edges. VG/VG; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. A limited edition of 450 copies. The book is number 303 of 450 copies. Signed by Percy on the limitation page. The slipcase is in very good condition with some edgewear and soiling. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Signed limited edition of 450, of which this is #307. In original grey slipcase and with the uncommon original glassine dust jacket cover, as shown. The story about a middle-aged man and his relationship with a younger woman who has escaped from a mental institution. The book was nominated for a National Book Critics Award in 1980 as well as a Pen-Faulkner Award. Hardcover with gilt titles in a red band on the spine and Percy's initials in a red and gilt band on the front cover. Original glassine dust jacket cover. Very good plus condition - glassine dust jacket has a horizontal closed split along the back cover, otherwise the book shows few if any signs of use or wear. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Hardcover in slipcase, sealed in original shrink wrap. Edition of 450. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. The author's fifth novel, set in North Carolina. One of 450 numbered copies of the limited edition (406), signed by Percy on the limitation page. Fine, in publisher's slipcase, without dustjacket, as issued. Signed by Author(s).

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1980). First trade edition. Original orange cloth, gilt, and pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Percy on the title page, and a birthday presentation on the half title with the recipients name rubbed out. Not price clipped. All edges lightly foxed, some dust soiling. A little wear, only to jacket edges. A Very Good copy in a like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed limited #80/450. Signed on the limitation page, housed in publisher's skip case. Book is fine and the slip case has some shelf wear.

1st edition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page Fine/near fine (price-clipped).

Hardcover. Condition: FINE. First Edition. 12mo, navy blue cloth, gilts tamped spine title and monograph to front cover blocked in red. SIGNED by Walker Percy on the limitation page and hand numbered '400' of an edition limited to 500 signed copies. FINE in FINE slipcase. Signed.

Condition: Fine in about fine slipcase. First edition. Signed limited first edition of Percy's novel of faith and alienation. Lovely copy of the sequel to Percy's 1966 THE LAST GENTLEMAN, revisiting the character of Will Barrett in middle age and under great philosophic and psychologic strain. Critically well received, THE SECOND COMING was nominated for both a PEN/Faulkner award and a National Book Critics Circle award. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth with red and gilt lettering. Sky-blue endpapers. In grey paper-covered slipcase. Copy no. 80 of a signed limited edition of 450, signed by Percy at colophon. 360 pages. Signed.

Condition: Very Fine. A very fine hardcover copy. Issued without a jacket. Copy is crisp, clean and tight. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 450 Numbered Copies. This is copy no. 368. Housed in a good slipcase which has some moisture damage and fading. Please see all pictures.

Hardcover. Limited Edition, #320/450. Octavo, 359 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus condition slip case. Blue and red spine with gold gilt lettering. Contained in a blue/gray slipcase with an adhesive mark along the tail edge, mild chipping along the fore corners, and moderate age toning and wear. Boards are bound in publisher's blue cloth, wrapped in a mylar cover, and mild discoloration along the spine. Textblock has light wear along the edges. Signed flat by Walker Percy on the publisher's limitation page. Shelved in Room C. 1393402. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. First Edition, 1980 stated on the copyright page. SIGNED by the author on a book plate and laid in. Original price of $12.95 printed on front flap of dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a Fine Dust Jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Percy's seond novel, the tale of a widower who "leaves his comfortable home atop a pleasant Carolina mountain and descends deep iinto the bowels of the long-unused Lost Cove cave 'looking for proof of the existence of God and a sign of the apocalypse.'" Book condition: Near fine. Dust jacket condition: Very good with some wear on edges. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Evelyn Hofer [photograph] (illustrator). Fourth printing [stated]. [6], 359, [3] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has some wear and soiling. Walker Percy, Obl.S.B. (May 28, 1916 - May 10, 1990) was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first novel, The Moviegoer, won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Trained as a physician at Columbia University, Percy decided to become a writer instead after a bout of tuberculosis. He devoted his literary life to the exploration of "the dislocation of man in the modern age." His work displays a combination of existential questioning, Southern sensibility, and deep Catholic faith. He had a lifelong friendship with author and historian Shelby Foote. After many years of writing and rewriting in collaboration with editor Stanley Kauffmann, Percy published his first novel, The Moviegoer, in 1961. Later works included The Last Gentleman (1966), Love in the Ruins (1971), Lancelot (1977), The Second Coming (1980), and The Thanatos Syndrome in 1987. Percy's vision for the plot of The Second Coming came to him after an old fraternity brother visited him in the 1970s. He told Percy the story of his life where he is burned out and does not know what to do next. The trend of Percy's personal life influencing his writing seemingly held true throughout his literary career, beginning with his first novel. Percy also published a number of nonfiction works exploring his interests in semiotics and existentialism, his most popular work being Lost in the Cosmos. Derived from a Kirkus review: Percy's fifth novel is tightly bound to the theme of his other four: Why is a person nowadays "two percent of himself"? Why are we all so unhappy? And it's most especially and clearly linked to his second (and perhaps best) book, The Last Gentleman. Here, grown older and incomparably richer (having married a cheerful, fat, crippled heiress who died), is again Will Barrettâ"who's still having spells and blacking out. But now Will is coming out of those spells into a reality that includes the 30 or 40 million dollars he has; a grown, born-again daughter; and the slowly sharpening, interweaving memory of his father, on a hunting trip with boy Will, trying to kill them both on purpose. Thenâ"to complement Will's abstracted search for what the hell it all comes out toâ"Percy brings on Allie, a girl in her twenties. Allie, shock-treated and not about to be zapped again, has escaped from a sanitarium and taken shelter in an abandoned North Carolina greenhouse adjacent to Will's property. There's not much that she can remember about the business of the worldâ"how to talk to people, for instanceâ"but she gets along with the help of elemental physics and conundrum-like speech that only Will, when they accidentally meet, seems to understand and appreciate. Two slates, then: one overfilled, one about emptyâ"and Percy takes it gleefully from there. As with any Percy novel, the wealths here are almost humbling: the spookily precise descriptions of odd physical sensations; the satire on the complacent and dead modern South; the rage and the Kierkegaardian comic curiosity. There are sections in which these not-always-meshing attributes go on too long, saved only by Percy's enormous charm as a stylist; it's a generally wide-seamed. But this is Percy, our cool Dostoevsky more personal than ever beforeâ"and, page for page, there's more acute fiction and better prose here than you're likely to find anywhere else in American writing today.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 359 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Gold spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price uncut "$12.95", has mild age toning, a small tear along the spine head edge, and general shelving wear. Boards are slightly cocked, has mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges and rear head fore corner. Textblock has mild age toning and stains along the edges. Inscribed "To Dick, my best wishes" and signed by Walker Percy on the front end-page. Shelved in Room C. 1393396. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to a noted writer and musician: "To Jeff Rian best wishes, Walker Percy Christmas 1980.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Foxing on the page edges, slightly cocked, very good in near fine dust jacket with a crease and some light foxing on the front flap. Inscribed by the author: "For Josephine and Kenneth with all best, Walker. Covington June 28, 1980." The recipients were Kenneth Haxton, a well-known Mississippi author and composer (one of his noted works was based on Faulkner's *The Sound and the Fury*) and his wife, Josephine, who was a very well-known author who wrote under the pseudonym, Ellen Douglas. An excellent Mississippi association.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. First Trade Edition. Octavo. 360 pp. Printed dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket worn with some light chipping along edges; creasing to front flap. Boards shelfworn; cloth at base of spine a bit crushed, possible a production flaw. Mild spotting to edges of text block and interior else unmarked. A Very Good copy. Signed by Walker Percy without inscription at title page. Signed.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. First Edition, Limited Issue of 450 copies signed by Walker Percy at colophon, this being #402. Octavo. 360 pp. Blue cloth boards stamped in dark red and gilt; pale blue endpapers. Housed in publisher's gray slipcase. Spine ends mildly nudged. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase with a couple minor scrapes to top edge, mildly sunned, else sturdy and sound. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good slipcase. Signed.

Condition: Fine. Signed by Author. #312 of only 450 signed copies. In slip case. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 360 pages. All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.