Walker Percy — The Last Gentleman
New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1966. First edition. Cloth. First edition, first impression of Walker Percy's novel, complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. Novel by Walker Percy exploring some of the qualities of life in our time through the story of Will Barrett as he finds romance. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. Walker Percy was an American author known for his philosophical novels set in New Orleans, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction with his novel The Moviegoer (1961.) In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, minor bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Dust wrapper sound with shelf wear, chipped with few minor closed tears to head and tail of spine, unclipped. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good.
