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The Moviegoer - Franklin Library Signed Special Edition
by Percy, Walker
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- As New
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1980. Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Rane, Walter. As New; pristine. See description and scans. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1980. Signed, limited edition. Signed by Percy in black ink on the third free endpaper, with tissue guard. Includes the rather scarce accompanying twenty-two page "Notes From the Editors" commentary, laid in. Illustrations by Walter Rane. Octavo, 224 pp. As New; immaculate and pristine. See scans. Franklin's lavish leather binding of the Signed, Limited Edition of Percy's 1961 Southern Lit / existentialist novel, which wont the U.S. National Book Award and earned a spot in the Top 100 modern English Language Novels lists of both Time and Modern Library. Artist Walter Rane's illustrations are original for this edition. Rich green topgrain cowhide binding, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, green moire endpapers, and a matching satin page-marker ribbon. The gilt is 22 karat; the paper is 60-pound Franklin Library Eggshell Wove Cream stock, specially milled for longevity; text is set in 11-point Times Roman typeface. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New; pristine and flawless, and protectively archived since arrival; page-marker has in fact never been moved. With the author's newly-contributed "A Special Message to Subscribers from Walker Percy" prefacing the novel, and the seldom-retained "Notes from the Editors" which arrived with original shipments of the piece (note that this pamphlet has a cover chip at lower right corner -see scan). Please see all scans. Show this one off on the cocktail table; get a market copy to read. l-frnkln3
Synopsis
The Moviegoer was published in 1961 by Walker Percy. This novel tells the story of Binx Bolling, a young businessman in New Orleans after the Korean war who feels alienated from his own life. His life is full of daydreams, and he tends to find more meaning in movies and books than in his own routine life.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60432
- Title
- The Moviegoer - Franklin Library Signed Special Edition
- Author
- Percy, Walker
- Illustrator
- Rane, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1980
- Pages
- 224
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Classics, Literary, Existentialism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics of Fiction From All Eras;
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Singularity Rare & Fine
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