A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole [FIRST EDITION / 1980]

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole FIRST EDITION / FIFTH PRINTING [1980] LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS  Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.    Dust jacket has visible shelf / edge wear but is otherwise in nice shape.  Water stain to front panel of dust jacket.   Book itself is mint; looks and reads like new! 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