Percy William Alexander 1885 1942 (7 results)

First edition (not stated but with publisher's corresponding dates on both title and copyright pages). 134 pages. Hardcover; H 20.75cm x L 13cm. Lacks dust jacket. Dark orange boards lightly soiled with light wear at corners, shallow chipping at spine head with heel worn even with text block's bottom edge, spine's rubbed surface paper re-adhered to underlying backstrip with peeling still slightly evident lengthwise along rear joint. Foxing to front and rear endpapers; past owner's ink signature on front free endpaper; half title page and rear flyleaf verso well toned. Interior pages remain clean and binding is firm. A good copy of a very uncommon book by the scion of a famous Greenville, Mississippi planter family. Text divided into three sections titled as "Siciliana," "Lyrical Pieces," and "From a Soldier's Notebook" with the book's namesake play-poem featured on pages 15-58 followed by with forty-six other poems. IN APRIL ONCE was Percy's second book following SAPPHO AND LEVKAS AND OTHER POEMS (Yale, 1915) and enjoyed moderate success with second and third editions published by Yale in 1925 and 1928 respectively. Percy is most famous for his 1941 book LANTERNS ON THE LEVEE which features his reminiscences of student days at Harvard and of life in Greenville and the Mississippi Delta spiced with impressions of Yankees and reflections upon race relations in the South. William Alexander Percy (1885-1942) was grand-uncle of novelist and essayist Walker Percy. {PoetryShelf#3}.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1925 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 104 Language: English Pages: 104.

Second printing (first published June 1943). xii, 387 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 16.25cm. Dust jacket soiling and moisture stains and chips at edges, usual strong toning/browning especially to spine panel, patch of surface peeling to front panel; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Dark red cloth rubbed, spine's gilt stamping remains bright but with slender patch of dj's spine paper adhered at heel with slender moisture staining shallowly overlapping into adjacent board corners. Dark brown top edge; moderate toning to fore-edge with light toning to bottom edge. Front endpapers toned from two newspaper and one magazine laid-in obituaries regarding Will Percy; past owner's name/address label affixed upon front pastedown; light toning to rear endpapers; slight rippling to frontispiece leaf. Interior pages remain fairly clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy in only a good dust jacket. With frontispiece portrait of the author with facsimile signature plus Foreword by Roark Bradford. A posthumous complete compilation of Percy's poems from SAPPHO IN LEVKAS AND OTHER POEMS (1915), IN APRIL ONCE (1920), ENZIO'S KINGDOM (1924), and SELECTED POEMS (1930). Heir to one of the great Mississippi planter fortunes, William Alexander Percy (1885-1942) is perhaps best known for his autobiographical LANTERNS ON THE LEVEE which is ripe with reminiscences of life in Greenville and the Mississippi Delta. However, Percy was also an accomplished poet, a graduate of Harvard Law School, a World War I veteran, and second cousin of novelist and essayist Walker Percy. Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. {PoetryShelf_#4}.

First edition, first printing (with publisher's statement for former upon copyright page). xii, 387 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 16.25cm. White dust jacket soiled with some toning and staining; several short tears at edges; small chip at front panel's bottom edge; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Dark burgundy cloth decorated with gilt stamping to spine; bottom board corners mildly bumped affecting interior leaves likewise. Dark burgundy top edge; some foxing and toning to bottom edge and deckle fore-edge as well as to several initial and rear leaves; newspaper clippings once laid-in but now removed have caused toned impressions at gutter margins of versos and opposing rectos including at front endpapers, frontispiece and title, pages 4-5, and pages 112-113; interior text pages otherwise remain quite clean. Binding is firm. Still a very good copy in a good+ dust jacket. With frontispiece portrait of William Percy and his facsimile signature plus Foreword by Roark Bradford. A posthumous complete compilation of Percy's poems from SAPPHO IN LEVKAS AND OTHER POEMS (1915), IN APRIL ONCE (1920), ENZIO'S KINGDOM (1924), and SELECTED POEMS (1930). Heir to one of the great Mississippi planter fortunes, William Alexander Percy (1885-1942) is perhaps best known for his autobiographical LANTERNS ON THE LEVEE which is ripe with reminiscences of life in Greenville and the Mississippi Delta. However, Percy was also an accomplished poet, a graduate of Harvard Law School, a World War I veteran, and second cousin and adoptive father of novelist-essayist Walker Percy. Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. {Poetry Shelf #6}.

Second printing (first published October 1915 per publisher's statements upon copyright page). xii, 78 pages. Hardcover; H 20.75cm x L 12.75cm. Lacks dust jacket. White cloth spine soiled with mild fraying at ends; blue boards rubbed with some staining and toning at edges, board corners are worn, slender 1.25cm loss at front board's upper fore-edge. Edges toned; deckle bottom edge contributing to slender bands of toning at bottom margins of the longer leaves; pages 55-60 have minor dings at their top edges; light stain at upper fore-edge shallowly affecting some leaves at margins. Toning and foxing to endpapers; a few foxing spots amongst interior text leaves with a few scattered light stains and minor soiling but with majority of pages still clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy. Heir to one of the great Mississippi planter fortunes, William Alexander Percy (1885-1942) is perhaps best known for his autobiographical LANTERNS ON THE LEVEE which is ripe with reminiscences of life in Greenville and the Mississippi Delta. However, Percy was also an accomplished poet, a graduate of Harvard Law School, a World War I veteran, and grand-uncle and adoptive father of novelist and essayist Walker Percy. {Poetry Shelf C#2}.

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo; 1st edition; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, tan with green print; DJ has mild edgewear, toning to spine, peripheral toning, price-clipped; Boards in brown cloth, mild wear to spine caps and corners, wear to front bottom edge, else clean and strong; Text block has brown tinted top edge, name in ink on front flyleaf, slight tanning to endpapers, else clean and tight; xii, 386 pages, frontispiece (port.). 1352691. FP New Rockville Stock.

First edition, first printing (with publisher's requisite statement for former upon copyright page) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [11], 348, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.5cm. Lacks dust jacket save for trimmed portions of front and rear flaps now glued to slightly rippled front free endpaper verso and opposing front flyleaf recto. Dull blue cloth rubbed, short streaks of discoloration near rear board's fore-edge, shelf scuffing along bottom board edges, slight wear at spine ends with some fraying at heel and short white streak at spine center, spine's gilt stamping quite dulled but still legible. Reddish-brown top edge; some toning to deckle fore-edge and bottom edge; usual strong toning to endpapers; original owner's five-line ink inscription upon the front free endpaper recto; some occasional foxing spots to interior pages which, overall, remain clean. Binding is firm. A good+ copy with Percy's black ink signature immediately underneath his printed name upon title page. LANTERNS ON THE LEVEE features the reminiscences of William Alexander Percy, most of which regard life in Greenville and the Mississippi Delta with chapters on the Great Flood of 1927, Ku Klux Klan activities, travels in Europe, World War I, attendance at Harvard Law School, etc. spiced with impressions of Yankees and reflections upon race relations in the South. Son of Senator LeRoy Percy and grand-uncle of novelist and essayist Walker Percy, William Percy died January 21, 1942 less than a year after the book's initial first printing on March 10, 1941. Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. {MS Shelf #24}.