A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole [FIRST EDITION] 1980 • Louisiana State University • 13th Printing / 1994

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole FIRST EDITION [1980 / 1994] LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS  *13th printing / 1994.  Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition with wear.  Dust jacket has some visibly worn / creased edges and some general shelf wear / scratches.  Otherwise clean and in tact with original price in tact on front panel.  Now housed in a new protective brodart jacket. Book shows some page wear (creased edges) and some mild discoloration to text block.  Otherwise reads nicely.   Cloth boards are very clean, near pristine with just a few bumped 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