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8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. A very fine copy, virtually as new. A very fine copy, virtually as new First edition of Toole's posthumously published first book, in the first issue dust jacket. A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981. One of 2500 copies printed. This copy is signed by Percy at the end of his foreword. Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, 125.

About A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole, published by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, 11 years after Toole's suicide. The book's title refers to an epigram from Jonathan Swift's essay, 'Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting': 'When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.' Set in New Orleans, the novel bursts with rich and vivid characters, especially the protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly, whose comedic misadventures are a highlight of the narrative.