Description
First edition of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, in the publisher’s first state dust jacket. This copy is signed by Walker Percy.
Octavo, vii, [4], 338pp. Olive cloth, title printed in black on spine. Matching dates on the title page and copyright page, with no mention of later printings. Previous ownership note on the front pastedown. Laid in advertisement for the paperback edition from Grove Press.
In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $12.95 on front flap, faint wear at head of the spine, 1cm closed tear along top edge of the rear panel, a near fine example. 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)
This copy is signed by Walker Percy on the title page.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981, which was awarded posthumously to author John Kennedy Toole. This is one of 2500 copies issued for the first printing.
