Description
First edition of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, in the publisher’s first state dust jacket.
Octavo, 338pp. Olive cloth, title printed in black on spine. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $12.95 on front flap, light wear at corners, nicks along top edge, residual marks from scotch tape on back of dust jacket, not affecting covers.
This is the first state dust jacket, with “stars in the night sky” around the title, which were intentionally removed from the second issued jacket. Both the first and second state jackets include the Walker Percy blurb on the rear panel. (Joanna Hill Archive, LSU)
Dust jacket is bright with vibrant illustrations.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981, which was awarded posthumously to author John Kennedy Toole.
