A Confederacy of Dunces

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1980). First edition, 4th printing. 8vo. 338 pp. Original khaki colored cloth boards, stamped in black, in original price-clipped dust-jacket. Mild toning to spine, moderate, consistent edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners. Small tears, chipping to jacket - particular to spine ends, tips and corners. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Light handling wear, particular to tips and edges, lgiht curling to spine ends, mild toning, foxing along page edges. Previous owner’s name erased by black permanent marker. Signed by Walker Percy, who wrote the forward and helped get the novel published.

Dust Jacket: Good

Hardcover: Very Good

“Confederacy of Dunces is a novel by American writer John Kennedy Toole that was published in 1980, 11 years after Toole's death. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who contributed a foreword) and Toole's mother, Thelma, the book became first a cult classic, then a mainstream success; it earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981 and is now a canonical work of modern literature of the Southern United States.”