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William Alexander Percy. Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941....
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William Alexander Percy. Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; publisher's pictorial dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO FATHER FLYE on the title-page: "Autographed for my friend Father Fly[sic] / William Alexander Percy."
William Alexander Percy (1885-1942) was a lawyer, planter, and poet from a prominent family in Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography, Lanterns on the Levee, became a bestseller. As an influential figure and author he promoted writers like William Faulkner and supported the Southern Agrarians, including John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. He adopted his nephew and future novelist Walker Percy after his parents' deaths. William Percy's notable life included service in World War I, leadership during the 1927 Mississippi River flood, and mentoring writers Shelby Foote and Walker Percy.
Father James Harold Flye was an Episcopalian priest, best known for his correspondence with writer James Agee, whom he taught history at St. Andrew's School, near Sewanee, Tennessee. As an amateur photographer, he photographed his students, their parents, teachers, staff, townspeople, and notable individuals like poet William Alexander Percy whose book, Lanterns on the Levee, Flye was known to have greatly admired. A WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION COPY.
Condition: Binding rubbed with some wear to extremities; endpapers a little toned; hinges a bit shaken. Dust jacket price-clipped; spine panel a bit faded; minor edgewear with some small chips to extremities.
Provenance: Father James Harold Flye (presentation inscription). From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2025 September 10 - 11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part III, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6321 (go to Auction Home page)
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