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Walker Percy, The Moviegoer 1st edition
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer 1st edition
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Author: Percy, Walker
Title: The Moviegoer
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Knopf
Date Published: 1961
Description: Red cloth-backed blue-green boards, top edge stained blue-green, dust jacket. First Edition.Percy‘s first book and winner of the National Book Award, beating out Heller‘s Catch-22 and Salinger‘s Franny and Zoey. An important literary achievement for this Southern writer.
Condition
Moderate jacket edgewear, slight stains to boards; near fine in very good jacket.
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Walker Percy, The Moviegoer 1st edition

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