Percy, Walker

The Moviegoer

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1980.
Illustrated by Howard Rogers. Limited Edition. Leatherbound. 6 x 9", 224pp, gilt decorated green full leather, raised spine bands, all edges gilt with 22-carat gold, green moire endpapers, ribbon marker, tissue guard to protect signature page, illustrated. Item #900366

Limited Edition privately printed and individually signed by Walker Percy, with an introduction written by the author for this edition. Illustrated with original drawings by Walter Rane highlighting significant scenes in the life of Binx Bolling.

Winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1962. Citation from the judges conferring the award: "The Moviegoer, an intimation rather than a statement of mortality and the inevitability of that condition, is a truthful novel with shocks of recognition and spasms of nostalgia for every – or nearly every – American. Mr. Percy, with compassion and without sentimentality or the mannerisms of the clinic, examines the delusions and hallucinations and the daydreams and dreams that afflict those who abstain from the customary ways of making do."

As new, "Notes from the Editors" pamphlet laid in.

Price: $150.00