A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole ISBN 13: 9780807106570

Louisiana State University Press. Hardcover. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, and dust jackets may not be included.

Louisiana State University Press, 1980-05-01. Hardcover. Good.

Louisiana State University Press, 1980-05-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.2000 in x 9.1000 in x 6.1000 in. moderate shelf wear, ripped and faded dust jacket

Louisiana State University Press, 1980-05-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1.2000 in x 9.1000 in x 6.1000 in. DJ has wear, tears and discoloration along spine. Pages are clean.

Stated 15th printing. Book is in excellent condition; solid spine, clean unworn boards, pages are clean and crisp with no writing and no folded corners. There is a spot of adhesive on the back blank endpage facing the cover. Dust jacket has heavy wear to top spine end area, and some lesser wear to the bottom spine end.

1980 LSU Press fifth printing trade paperback, 338 pages, ex libris. Binding and clean pages are VG+, cover is VG. Ships within 24 hours of order via USPS media mail with tracking. Please email with questions or for more photos. Thanks for looking.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. Eighth Printing. Hardcover. 0807106577 . 9 X 5.90 X 1.20 inches; 338 pages .

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1981. Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Nice, tight, original 5th printing. Despite very light general use, this is a nice tight gift quality copy.

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Louisiana State University Press, 1980-05-01. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Louisiana, 1980. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. 4th printing. Slightly dampstained. In protective mylar cover. From the collection of Charles Edward Roberts, owner and founder of Wonder Book & Video. With his custom bookplate on front pastedown. (Humorous Fiction)

Hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Louisiana State University Press, 1980-05-01. Hardcover. New. New.

Stated: "Seventh Printing (June, 1981)". Louisiana State University Press (1981). Hardcover with DJ. Book is clean and unmarked, with firm binding but shows light foxing on fore-edge. DJ is complete but has edge wear and minor tears. Ships immediately.

Lousiana State University Press, 1980. First edition 5th printing. Hardcover. VG+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very clean unworn volume with owner name on inside front cover as only mark or flaw. Dust jacket with shelf wear and a few marginal nicks at spine ends.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. 6th Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 1981 6th printing in second state jacket (Chicago Sun-Times blurb on rear panel). Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket price clipped, jacket edges a bit rubbed with 1/2 inch closed internal tear on rear corner and 1/4 inch abrasion on spine. 1980 Hard Cover. vii, [5], 338 pp. 8vo. Foreword by Walker Percy. "A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published by LSU Press in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide. The book was published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a revealing foreword) and Toole's mother Thelma Toole, quickly becoming a cult classic, and later a mainstream success. Toole posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. It is now considered a canonical work of modern Southern literature. The title derives from the epigraph by Jonathan Swift: "When a true genius appears in the world, you… Read More

Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. First Edition Later Printing 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Pulitizer-prize winning novel that "outswifts Swift,'' with its title taken from one of his essays, set in the author's home of New Orleans, Louisiana. First published in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide, largely by the efforts of his mother, Thelma, & writer Walker Percy, who writes the Foreword. This is the Fourteenth Printing (Dec. 1994) of that First Edition, in 338 pages. With tan cloth over boards & black lettering to spine, this hardcover book is in Near Fine condition: completely clean save for some heavy foxing to exterior page edges. Long gift inscription in pen to ffep; NO other writing, highlighting or underlining; not ex-lib. Binding tight & square, pages white. The price-clipped DJ (Second state, with Chicago Sun-Times blurb on rear, original Ed Lindlof illustration to front) is truly Fine &… Read More

Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket, first edition, 6th printing, 2nd issue dustjacket (May 1981) (Foreward by Walker Percy). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. 1980 at title page and copyright page. Stated eighth printing. Oatmeal colored full cloth boards, black stylized spine titles, fine. Matte mustard lime endpapers. Pages fine; no writing. Bind fine, square. Dust wrapper, slight wear; unclipped 14.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Wrapper features gold medallion at front panel: "Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction". Sadly, the author, John Kennedy Toole, took his own life at 32, after facing consistent rejection from nearly every American publisher. Toole's mother, finally was able to have her son's work posthumously published; and, as fate would have it, the satirical novel won the Pulitzer Prize. "A masterwork of comedy... pungent slapstick, sature and intellectual incongruities... make for a grand comic fugue" (New York Time). Presented here is "a great slob of a man in violent revolt against the entire twentieth century!"… Read More

Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. 1980 at title page and copyright page. Stated: "Seventh Printing (June, 1981). Tan with greenish tint, full cloth boards, black stylized spine titles, fine. Pages fine; no writing. Bind fine, square; remains tightly bound and relatively as new. Dust wrapper, fine; unclipped 12.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Matches first printing in design and quality with classic Ed Lindloff wrapper illustration; identical to the third printing with Chicago Sun-Times blurb at back jacket panel. Sadly, the author, John Kennedy Toole, took his own life at 32, after facing consistent rejection from nearly every American publisher. Toole's mother, finally was able to have her son's work posthumously published; and, as fate would have it, the satirical novel won the Pulitzer Prize. "A masterwork of comedy... pungent slapstick, sature and intellectual incongruities... make for a grand comic fugue" (New York Time).… Read More