Percy William Alexander Walker (10 results)
Language: English
Published by Louisiana State University Press, c.1994,, 1994
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paperback. Condition: Good. Louisiana State University Press, c.1994, (orig.c.1941), trade paperbk.prtg., 348pp., foxed foredges, ow VG $.
LANTERNS ON THE LEVEE; RECOLLECTIONS OF A PLANTER'S SON. William Alexander Percy. With an Introduction by Walker Percy.
Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942. Walker Percy, 1916-1990 (Introduction).
Language: English
Published by Baton Rouge, LA and London: Louisiana State University Press [LSU Press], 1991., 2006
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
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Reprint. xxii, 348 pages. Paperback: H 20.25cm x L 13.5cm. Glossy paper covers lightly rubbed with minor wear at corners; slight bumping at spine ends. Faint impression of past bookseller's pencil note at half-title page's top right; interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A near fine copy.… {MS-Shelf#34} ISBN 0807100722.
LANTERNS ON THE LEVEE; RECOLLECTIONS OF A PLANTER'S SON. Louisiana State University Press Library of Southern Civilization Series.
Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942. Walker Percy, 1916-1990 (Introduction).
Language: English
Published by Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press [LSU Press], 2006., 2006
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
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Reprint (originally published March 1941). [2], xxii, 348 pages. Paperback: H 20.25cm x L 13.75cm. Paper covers lightly rubbed. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. Still a fine copy. A beloved classic of Southern and particularly Mississippi literature, 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. Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. {Lit_Shelf #39} ISBN 9780807100721.
Language: English
Published by Oxford, MS: Yoknapatawpha Press, Inc., 1982., 2010
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- First Edition
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
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Presumed first edition (no direct statement) SIGNED BY ELISE WINTER. xx, 136 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.25cm. Purple dust jacket rubbed; some creasing, short tears, and wear at spine ends; 1.75cm tear at rear panel's top right; top corner of front flap Is price-clipped. Dark blue cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine… and front board. Non-authorial three-line ink gift inscription on front pastedown hidden underneath dj's front flap; touch of foxing to front free endpaper; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket with Elise Winter's black ink signature also on the front free endpaper. With Foreword by Willie Morris, Introduction, section of b/w plates on unpaged leaves, and concluding with a collection of recipes. Elise Winter, wife of Mississippi Governor William Winter, provides vignettes of life at the Mississippi Governor Mansion in Jackson and in her role of serving as First Lady and hostess to prominent writers, singers, journalists, etc. with chapters on Dean Rusk, Leontyne Price, Eudora Welty, Margaret Walker Alexander, Turner Catledge, Walker Percy, etc. {MS Shelf #2} ISBN 0916242218.
Language: English
Published by Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA, 1973
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Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tal; 347 pp; A nice solid book with light edgewear and lamat wrinkle along front cover edge, interior and text remain clean tight and unmarked. Percy's grew up in the 'Old South' as it left its semifeudal heritage and became the unstable climate of the 1940s; his story remain…s to this day an intimate, honest, and soul-probing record. ; Always Delivery Confirmation. 35 Years Fast Excellent Service. We Know How To Pack Books.
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Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, CanadaRussell Books
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Paperback. Condition: Good.
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Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, CanadaRussell Books
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good.
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 376 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.
Published by Boston, MA - Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company - The Riverside Press, October 1941., 1941
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star seller#571 of a limited first edition of 1030 copies of which only one thousand were for sale - SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER ALONG WITH GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI AND WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY FAMILY ASSOCIATIONS. [4], [b/w frontis], [6], 32 pages plus concluding section of 62 b/w plates, each individually featured on a recto with a b…rief summary caption on the opposing verso. Hardcover: H 32cm x L 24.75cm. Lacks the slipcase with which it was issued. No dust jacket present (supposedly issued with an undecorated acetate dj). Salmon-colored cloth soiled and toned; strong mottling to spine with milder occurrence to rear board and light mottling o front board; fraying at spine ends with some edge-chipping to spine's dark maroon title label which retains bright gilt lettering. Deckle fore-edge and bottom edge. Endpapers toned; a few spots of soiling to interior leaves which, overall, remain clean. Binding is firm. Handwritten copy# along with ink signatures "Clarence John Laughlin" and "David L. Cohn" are on an unpaged limitation leaf (between half-title and frontis); same leaf has six-line ink inscription noting the book's receipt as a 1941 Christmas gift and, in turn, being gifted to dear friend Mrs. C.P. Williams [Mrs. Charles P. Williams aka Ada Howell Williams, 1883-1970] of Greenville, Miss. by "Nana Bourges Pearce, | Aug 16th, 1943." Still a very good- copy. Features an essay regarding New Orleans by David Cohn along with Clarence John Laughlin's 63 black/white plates (62 plus frontispiece) of Vieux Carre, New Orleans, and Louisiana subjects. ***** Indiana "Nana" Bourges Pearce (1860-1947) was one of four daughters of Ernest Bourges (1837-1906) and Marie "Mere" Camille Bourges (1841-1903) who owned Woodstock Plantation near Leland, Mississippi. Nana Pearce's sister Camille Bourges Percy (1862-1929) was married to U.S. Senator LeRoy Percy (1860-1929) of Greenville, Mississippi thus making Nana Pearce an aunt to Camille and LeRoy's son William Alexander Percy (1885-1942) who mentions both grandmother "Mere" and "Aunt Nana" in his 1941 autobiography LANTERNS ON THE LEVEE. In turn Nana Pearce was also a great-aunt to novelist and essayist Walker Percy (1916-1990). ***** Greenville, Mississippi author David Cohn is best remembered for his autobiographical WHERE I WAS BORN AND RAISED published by Houghton Mifflin in 1948 and for his still oft-quoted quip geographically defining his native state's Delta region as beginning "in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel [Memphis] and end[ing] on Catfish Row in Vicksburg." ***** Lauded as among the earliest American surrealist photographers, Clarence John Laughlin favored b/w studies of light, shadow, and exposure among architectural forms imbuing foreboding, eeriness, and eldritch to his subjects of age-worn and often dilapidated plantation houses abutting Louisiana's portion of the Mississippi River. NEW ORLEANS AND ITS LIVING PAST, Laughlin's first book, has never been reprinted and remains a quite uncommon and sought-after monograph which predates Laughlin's more ubiquitous regional photo-essay GHOSTS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI which was first published by Scribner's in 1948 and reprinted by others many times since. ***** Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 4.25 pounds (1.92 kg) and will require additional postage/insurance for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 376 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.
