DIAGNOSING THE MODERN MALAISE
by PERCY, Walker
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine.
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About This Item
New Orleans: Faust Publishing, 1985. First, deluxe edition. Publisher's gilt leather. Fine.. Quarter publisher's gilt leather, red cloth, pictorial onlay. Portrait. First separate edition. № 44 of fifty deluxe copes, from a total edition of three hundred numbered copies, signed by the author. A fine line scar on the signature page, probably occurring during binding, else an exceptionally fine copy.
Percy was a medical doctor who didn't practice and a Catholic who did, which equipped him to embark on a search for how we mortals fit into the cosmos. His theory examines when a bad thing is inevitable, for example, a meteorological occurrence such as a hurricane or a brutal winter storm. People feel better because they are focused on something and know what they must do to preserve a state of well-being for themselves and others; when there is no conflict, no focus, people have the luxury to feel badly.
Percy was a medical doctor who didn't practice and a Catholic who did, which equipped him to embark on a search for how we mortals fit into the cosmos. His theory examines when a bad thing is inevitable, for example, a meteorological occurrence such as a hurricane or a brutal winter storm. People feel better because they are focused on something and know what they must do to preserve a state of well-being for themselves and others; when there is no conflict, no focus, people have the luxury to feel badly.
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- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 298
- Title
- DIAGNOSING THE MODERN MALAISE
- Author
- PERCY, Walker
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's gilt leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First, deluxe edition
- Publisher
- Faust Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New Orleans
- Date Published
- 1985
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