The shelf · The Second Coming
First edition
The Second Coming
Walker Percy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980. First edition, first printing.
$45One copy · this copy
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- Book
- Fine
- Jacket
- Very Good
- Jacket note
- The dust jacket grades Very Good and is protected in a new archival mylar cover, included.
- Our ref
- RCB-f9d8ecd49f39
What we checked, and where to see itRCB-f9d8ecd49f39 · 10 photographs of this copy
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First trade edition: FSG, New York, 1980, red cloth boards
examined on the copy in hand
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Copyright page reads 'Copyright © 1980 by Walker Percy', no number line
examined on the copy in hand
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Copyright page notes 'A limited first edition of this book has been privately printed' (the separate signed issue)
examined on the copy in hand
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No statement of a later printing on the copyright page
examined on the copy in hand
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Jacket rear flap bears FSG imprint at 19 Union Square West and 'Printed in U.S.A.'
examined on the copy in hand
Flaws, each one named
1
scratches and surface scuffing across glossy jacket rear panel
2
yellow-toned/sunned jacket spine
3
foxing/spotting to fore-edge and page-block edges
4
light soiling/tanning to jacket flaps
This copy
First edition
What a true first shows: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1980, red cloth in dust jacket
Included with this copy: a new archival mylar jacket protector (fitted, included).
Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.