A Confederacy of Dunces SIGNED
Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. First Edition, Second Printing. First edition, second printing. First issue dust jacket with the Walker Percy blurb on the rear panel. Signed by author Walker Percy, who wrote the foreword for the book, on a professionally tipped in page from a signed limited edition, therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. This book measures approximately 9.25" x 6", with 338 numbered pages.
This book is in very good plus condition. Minor wear to the edges of the boards. Minor stain at the top of edge of the textblock. Interior pages are clean. Dust jacket is in very good condition. Minor wear to the extremities. Large closed tear on the front panel.
"A Confederacy of Dunces" remained unpublished for 11 years after the author's death. Toole's mother convinced Walker Percy to read the manuscript, who in turn convinced LSU to publish the book. The book went on to become a cult classic and earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. The novel's central character is an educated but slothful 30-year-old man living with his mother in the Uptown neighborhood of early 1960s New Orleans, who in his quest for employment, has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters.
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Inventory #(O8-74). Item #6483
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