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Fair. [12], 347. [7] pages. Some discoloration ins bds, fr board weak (restrengthened with glue), bds scuffed, board corners worn, spine discolored, spine edges worn & small tears. William Alexander Percy (May 14, 1885-January 21, 1942), was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee became a bestseller. His father LeRoy Percy was the last United States Senator from Mississippi elected by the legislature. In a largely Protestant state, the younger Percy championed the Catholicism of his French mother. During World War I, Percy joined the Commission for Relief in Belgium in November 1916. He served in Belgium as a delegate until the withdrawal of American personnel upon the US declaration of war in April 1917. He served in the US Army in World War I, earning the rank of Captain and the Croix de Guerre. Percy's most well-known work is his memoir, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son. His other works include the text of "They Cast Their Nets in Galilee, " which is included in the Episcopal Hymnal (1982) (Hymn 661), and the Collected Poems. One of his pieces was published under the name A. W. Percy in Men and Boys, an anonymous anthology of Uranian poetry (New York, 1934). Percy was the playwright behind a one-act scene in a volume of poetry, "In April Once" (1920). A friend of Herbert Hoover from the Belgium Relief Effort during the early years of World War I, Percy was put in charge of relief during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, when an area larger than all New England minus Maine was flooded in the spring. Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885--1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood. In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir lie not in what Will Percy did in his life--although his life was exciting and varied--but rather in the intimate, honest, and soul-probing record of how he brought himself to contemplate unflinchingly a new and unstable era. Derived from a Kirkus review: A Southerner of the Mississippi Delta tells, discursively and with charm, of his childhood, parents, Virginia relatives, boyhood activities and education and life in the pre-1900's. Harvard Law, a spot of teaching, politics, travel, the First World War and his share. Back to Mississippi, fighting the Klan and the river floods. Pleasant reading, philosophical, retrospective, nicely old style--of more than local interest.
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NEAR FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. AN OCTOBER 1994 PRINTING WITH AN 12 PAGE INTRODUCTION BY WALKER PERCY. BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT BUT A TOUCH OF SOIL TO THE FORE-EDGE OF THE TEXT BLOCK. D.J. IS ABOUT WITH SHORT CREASES TO THE FLAPS BU OTHEWISE FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.
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