A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy

$350 · Offered by Back Creek Books

Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Third Printing. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. xii, 338 pages. Very attractive early printing of this tragicomic novel that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981. Sadly, Toole committed suicide 12 years prior due, at least in part, to repeated rejections of the book by mainstream publishers. His mother persisted with efforts to get it

• Binding: Hardcover

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