The Last Gentleman
by Walker Percy
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1966. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None . 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
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 818A42
- Title
- The Last Gentleman
- Author
- Walker Percy
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Size
- 8.5" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- first editions walker percy dust wrapper walker percy
Terms of Sale
Rooke Books
Books are sent on approval and may be returned in like condition for any reason within 14 days of receipt. Responsibility of return to be with the purchaser.
About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
About Rooke Books
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Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....