A Confederacy of Dunces
Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing with no later printings stated on the copyright page. First printing dust jacket with the Walker Percy blurb present on the rear panel. This book measures approximately 9.25" x 6", with 338 numbered pages.
This book is in very good minus condition. Minor wear and staining to the boards and edges of the textblock. Old newspaper clippings and adhesive at front of the book. Tape damage to front pastedown. Paper clip impresson on the top of the front endpaper. Offsetting from the newspaper clipping on the half title page.
Interior pages are otherwise clean and well preserved. Dust jacket is in very good minus condition. Large tear at the front panel near the spine, with tape repairs on the verso.
"A Confederacy of Dunces" remained unpublished for 11 years after the author's death.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 #(O11-19). Item #7024
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