WALKER PERCY—The Second Coming—1st Ed HC—(w/ underlinings & marginalia)

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A SIGNED* First Edition, First Printing in HARDCOVER: • “THE SECOND COMING: A NOVEL” (FARRAR, STRAUS, GIROUX, 1980) (HARDCOVER, First US Edition, First Printing) • BY WALKER PERCY *SIGNING NOTE: Inscribed, signed, & dated in black ink on the Half Title Page as follows: “for Eunice, with best wishes, WALKER PERCY, July 17, 1980.” • ABOUT THIS TITLE:• “WILL BARRETT is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn’t want to continue living. But then he meets ALLISON, a mental hospital escapee making a new life for herself in a greenhouse. THE SECOND COMING is by turns touching and zany, tragic and comic, as WILL sets out in search of GOD’s existence and winds up finding much more.”—THE PUBLISHER • “Splendid...a beautifully textured novel...a distinguished work of art. WALKER PERCY’s perception luminously lights up obscure depths of experience without at the same time explaining that experience away…. Among recent novels, masterly and superior.” ―NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “Among recent novels, masterly and superior.” —JOHN ROMANO, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “What a pleasure…. His best book since THE MOVIEGOER…and among the most admirable American novels of the past few years.” ―THE NEW REPUBLIC • “A comedy shot through with serious observations…. This is a strong novel which satirizes both an easy, ill-considered Christianity and various clinical ideologies, defining its adversaries in modern culture clearly and taking them on directly. THE SECOND COMING treats two characters who are suffering because of their age's impoverished view of the possibilities of human life, and it sees them through to a full recovery.”—ELIZABETH MUTHER, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • “WALKER PERCY has become one of my favorite writers on the basis of one novel, THE SECOND COMING. This lost classic is in-print, as are all of PERCY’s books, but no one seems to talk about it…. In this funny, beautifully written existentialist novel, WILL BARRETT is the anti-hero, a middle-aged lawyer who has retired early in New York and moved back to North Carolina to play golf and…what? He isn’t sure. Every sentence is beautifully crafted. I read this difficult book in a couple of days, because even though it is characterized by stream-of-consciousness and existential angst, it is very funny and, yes, a page-turner.” —FRISBEE: A BOOK JOURNAL (BLOG)• MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • “One of our most talented and original authors…more of a philosophical novelist in the European tradition than a straightforward narrative storyteller.'” —MICHIKO KAKUTANI, NEW YORK TIMES • “He is a beguiling, uniquely gifted novelist who deserves to be read in order and in full.” ―NEWSWEEK • “Our greatest Catholic novelist since FLANNERY O’CONNOR.” —FRANCINE DU PLESSIX GRAY • “The satiric DOSTOYEVSKY of the bayou.''—ALFRED KAZIN • “A very original cast of mind…unlike any other Southern writer.” —ROBERT GIROUX, FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX • “WALKER PERCY knows as much about how the people of the Deep South act and speak as anyone that I can think of. He knows what is limited, narrow-minded and even grievously wrong in the social fabric of the Old South.” —CLEANTH BROOKS • “THE MOVIEGOER is probably my favorite book and PERCY certainly my favorite author…. PERCY’s books are a model for me in that each of the later ones especially seemed to be a genre novel on the surface—a thriller (THANATOS), a southern gothic romance (LANCELOT), an UPDIKE-ean exploration of mid-life in the suburbs (THE SECOND COMING), a dystopian sci-fi satire (RUINS). I love these high-concept conceits that pull you inside, and once you're under, you find a novel so thick with ideas it's almost Russian. I don’t pretend to be in PERCY's league, but his books are a template for the kinds of entertaining, existential stories I want to tell. I have to admit that when my agent called with the offer, my first reaction was, ‘Holy crap, I'm a novelist!’ followed seconds later by ‘Holy crap, Knopf published THE MOVIEGOER!’’ —KEVIN GUILFOILE• “During the last third of the twentieth century, WALKER PERCY was a force to be reckoned with, as essayist, philosopher, vocal Catholic, and, especially, as a prize-winning novelist, often best-selling. (He was considered a first-class stylist.) Describable, I think, as ‘psychological gothic’ (and Southern, though he came to hold no truck with FAULKNER), those six novels are books of ideas, lots of them, none simple. All were academically examined and widely reviewed, usually favorably even when not entirely understood.” —JAMES COMO, THE IMAGINATIVE CONSERVATIVE • “WALKER PERCY believed he had a call from GOD to write novels that artistically engaged non-religious readers by creating a believable, fictional world in which the grace of GOD is evident amid a culture that ignores GOD. Fully realizing this readership would not want to be preached at, Percy still felt compelled to show the mass audience novelistically that Christian belief is necessary. Biographer JAY TOLSON believes that ‘PERCY’s art…implies that the only way out of this deathtrap is the mysterious workings of grace.’ TOLSON sees that PERCY’s novels corner characters with only one way out—faith in the biblical GOD…. PERCY’s Catholic Christian viewpoint gave him insight into what was wrong with the world and what could be done to fix it: craft novels aimed at arousing agnostic readers’ interest in life’s principal questions and in Christianity’s answers. With humor, satire, and emblematic settings and clergy, these novels picture a castaway combing the beach for clues as to where he came from and what his destiny is.”—RICH GRAY, CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR’S REVIEW • ABOUT THE CONDITION OF THIS COPY:Normally, we don’t try to sell any books that have marginalia or underlining. But in the case of this first-edition hardcover signed by its most excellent author WALKER PERCY, we’ve decided to make an exception. Out of the 360 pages in this book, 113 of those pages have inked underlinings and/or marginalia on them. The marks are frequent, but none of them obscure any word or part of the text. And we personally wouldn’t consider the book trashed; just flawed; Below this text is a checklist of the pages that have inked marks on them. We’ve also included photos of the worst or most dramatic specimens. We know readers who can’t abide reading a book that has underlining or marginalia; we also know readers (ourselves) who don’t mind them underlining or marginalia—if it’s not overwhelming or perverse. (And some marginalia can even be interesting.) But every reader is different. (For example, while we don’t mind discreet underlining, highlighting bothers us.) Our view of the specific marginalia & underlining in this book is: Despite the frequency of the marks—there are a lot of them—they never overwhelm the page or really interfere with the reading experience. We found the underlining to be calmly applied & the marginalia to pertinent & curt & so, together, those things did not bother us. Of course, other readers might see it all differently. In any case: COMPLETE LISTING OF PAGES THAT HAVE INKED MARKINGS IN THIS COPY: “Mark”: Refers to some kind of punctuation-like mark (half-bracket, asterisk, exclamation point, etc.)—usually in the fore edge of the margin area “Underlining”: Refers to a word, phrase, partial-sentence, or full sentence that has been underlined in the text PAGE 148: One bracket-like mark in the margin PAGE 149: One bracket-like mark in the margin PAGE 150: 2 underliningPAGE 151: 11 underlinings; 4 marks in marginPAGE 152: 2 marks in marginPAGE 153: 5 underliningsPAGE 154: 1 underling; 1 comment in margin (“Oh my gawd!”) PAGE 155: 4 underliningsPAGE 156: 9 underlinings; 4 marks in margin & I comment or name (undecipherable)PAGE 157: 3 underlinings PAGE 158: 6 underliningsPAGE 159: 5 underlinings; 5 marks in the marginPAGE 160: 9 underliningsPAGE 161: 3 underlinings PAGE 162: 2 marks in marginPAGE 163: 9 underliningsPAGE 164: 5 underlinings; 2 marks in the marginsPAGE 165: 5 underlinings: 1 mark in the marginPAGE 166: 1 underliningPAGE 167: 1 mark in the marginPAGE 168: 2 marks in the marginPAGE 171: 1 mark in the marginPAGE 172: 1 mark in the marginPAGE 174: 2 underlinings; 2 marks in the marginPAGE 175: 1 underliningPAGE 176: 2 marks in the marginPAGE 177: 7 underliningsPAGE 179: 3 underlinings; 1 mark in the marginPAGE 181: 7 underlinings; 1 mark in the marginPAGE 182: 4 underlinings; 2 marks in the marginPAGE 184: 3 underliningsPAGE 187: 8 underliningsPAGE 188: 2 underliningsPAGE 189: 2 underlinings; 2 marks in the marginPAGE 190: 2 underlinings & 1 encircled word (“pore”); 2 marks in the marginPAGE 191: 7 underliningsPAGE 192: 2 underlinings; 1 mark in the marginPAGE 193: 4 underliningsPAGE 196: 2 underlinings; 1 mark in the marginPAGE 197: 3 underlinings; 1 encircled sentence (“So it was that Will Barrett went mad.”); 1 mark in the marginPAGE 198: 2 underliningsPAGE 200: 1 mark in the marginPAGE 201: 2 marks in the marginPAGE 204: 2 underliningsPAGE 208: 2 underliningsPAGE 209: 7 underlinings; 1 mark in the marginPAGE 244: 2 underliningsPAGE 246: 1 underlining; 1 mark in the marginPAGE 247: 4 marks in the marginPAGE 249: 3 marks in the marginPAGE 253: 5 underliningsPAGE 255: 1 underliningPAGE 264: 2 underlinings; 1 mark in the marginPAGE 270: 1 mark in the marginPAGE 271: 7 underlinings; 5 marks in the marginPAGE 279: 2 marks in the marginPAGE 282: 1 underliningPAGE 283: 1 underliningPAGE 284: 1 mark in the marginPAGE 285: 2 marks in the marginPAGE 286: 1 underlining; 4 marks in the margin; page number encircledPAGE 287: 4 underlinings; 2 marks in the marginPAGE 288: 3 underliningsPAGE 289: 1 underlining; 1 mark in the marginPAGE 290: 2 underliningsPAGE 296: 2 marks in the marginPAGE 297: 2 underlinings; 2 marks in the marginPAGE 298: 2 underliningsPAGE 299: 4 underliningsPAGE 300: 2 underliningsPAGE 301: 2 underliningsPAGE 302: 1 underlining; 1 mark in the marginPAGE 303: 1 mark in the marginPAGE 305: 3 underlinings; 1 mark in the marginPAGE 306: 3 underlinings; 1 mark in the marginPAGE 307: 5 underliningsPAGE 308: 1 mark in the marginPAGE 309: 1 mark in the marginPAGE 310: 2 underliningsPAGE 316: 2 marks in the marginPAGE 318: 2 underliningsPAGE 319: 2 underliningsPAGE 320: 1 mark in the marginPAGE 321: 2 underliningsPAGE 324: 2 marks in the marginPAGE 325: 3 underlinings; 2 marks in the marginPAGE 326: 4 underlinings; 1 mark in the marginPAGE 327: 2 underliningsPAGE 328: 1 underliningPAGE 329: 2 underliningsPAGE 333: 1 mark in the marginPAGE 334: 1 underliningPAGE 335: 1 mark in the marginPAGE 336: 1 underlining; 2 marks in the marginPAGE 337: 5 underlinings; 2 marks in the marginPAGE 338: 2 underliningsPAGE 341: 1 mark in the marginPAGE 348: 1 underliningPAGE 349: 1 mark in the marginPAGE 351: 2 underliningsPAGE 353: 1 underlining; 1 mark in the margin; 1 encircled word (“plangent”)PAGE 353: 1 underliningPAGE 359: 2 marks in the margin • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “THE SECOND COMING: A Novel” AUTHOR: WALKER PERCY TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX (New York), 1980 EDITION: First US Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement: “FIRST PRINTING, 1980”—with no later printings listed. PAGES: 360ISBN: 0-374-25674-8 NOTE: THIS BOOK is not an ex-library copy nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition. CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD MINUS. Price ($12.95) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are chipped. (Please see photos.) Edgewear includes some areas of rubbing & scuffing. Both inside flaps have long creases. Sides are lightly scratched & smudges but still bright & clean. (Now protected in a Brodart cover.) CONDITION OF BOOK: ACCEPTABLE. Book is firm, with a very slight slant. Coverboards are bright & clean with rubbed/scuffed corners. Spine is tight & uncreased with bumped tips. Text-block edges are lightly age-toned. Light ghosting along edges of endpapers. Previous owner’s bookplate on front free endpaper. Quarter-inch closed cut at bottom edge of Title Page. IMPORTANT NOTE: 133 of the 360 pages have underlining and/or marginalia. These inked marks are prevalent but do not obscure any of the text. Please see the list above for details. 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