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1st edition, first printing, in first state dj (with the little stars in the band at the top of the back panel) SIGNED BY WALKER PERCY on the title page Very good plus/very good plus (an excellent copy of this Pulitzer Prize winner; not price-clipped; no owner markings; some light foxing along the textblock edges).

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.