PERCY, WALKER — The Second Coming (Modern Library Isbn Series

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, 1997. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679602720. First printing. A Modern Library reprint edition of the second novel by Walker Percy. This is the story of Williston Bibb Barrett, a Southerner who works as a janitor in New York City and returns to the South to help care for the son of friends, a young man who requires care. Much of the storyline mimics the author's own life, in which he suffered from tuberculosis. With an introduction by Robert Coles. --- In Toledano spine 17 / grey cloth / blindstamped torchbearer device to cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / Bernhard endpapers / jacket style r with author black and white photographic portrait on cover and spine, verso lists titles in ML catalog. --- An about-Near Fine copy: bright, clean, and unmarked. Unclipped jacket ($18.50/$25.50) with numerous creases to back panel & flap, otherwise newish and protected in new removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; viii, [8], 442, [4] pages. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .