The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
First edition, first printing of Walker Percy's first novel. Winner of the 1962 National Book Award for Fiction, *The Moviegoer* launched Percy's literary career and has long been recognized as a landmark of twentieth-century American literature.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Publisher's original slate blue paper-covered boards over red cloth spine, lettered in gilt and stamped in black; pp. (x), 242, [2]. A very good copy in an about very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight and sturdy, trace of a lean, minimal wear to boards. Internally clean and fine. Jacket shows some general shelfwear and rubbing with a couple closed tears, foxing to back panel and flaps. A presentable copy, protected in archival mylar.