A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole [FIRST EDITION * FIRST PRINTING] 1980 • 1/2500 • Rare!

  • $2,500.00


A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1980] LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS 

*Mega rare true First Printing.  1 of 2,500. 

$12.95 price on dust jacket and original pale yellow cloth boards. 

Custom refurbished ex-library copy in good reading condition.  

Dust jacket is in attractive shape; wear to edges and some creasing.  Now housed in a new protective mylar jacket.

Book has library stamps on title and copyright pages; another across top of text block. 

All internal library materials have been removed; green endpapers fixed to boards. 

Flyleaf and first few pages have some tanned tape remainder marks.  Otherwise, contents looks and read nicely with tanning and some minor discoloration to text block.  Clean tight yellow cloth boards; minor tape remainder stains to rear edges.


Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures.  -  Bookshop Apocalypse