Confederacy Dunces by Toole John, First Edition (60 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. "First Black Cat Edition 1981 / Second Printing 1981" stated on the copyright page. Paperback book with illustrated front cover with publisher's original $3.50 price printed at top right corner of front and rear covers. "1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction" printed on front cover. 415 pages. In VERY GOOD + condition. Tightly bound, solid, square, bright, spotless and very clean. No sunning or creasing to spine but there is a light vertical ridge at top end of spine from the binder's gluing process. Light wear along the edges of the front cover with a bottom corner crease and faint small crease to the bottom corner tips of about the first third of the text pages. Otherwise excellent. Unmarked with just slight age-toning.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First PB edition, in fair condition.Cover has a few small dings. Age wear on the outer text block, all 3 sides.

Condition: New. Ignatius J Reilly is fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 26. Weight in Grams: 238. . 2011. 01st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Black Cat edition. 1st printing.

First edition. An octavo-size paperback original in the UK (though a small hardcover issue was simultaneously done, selling now for above $400). Edges slightly embrowned,otherwise very good in an added clear archival jacket for this copy. A grand novel, full of humour, Rabelaisian , black and otherwise. Cover art by Ed Lindlof.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, sixth printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Sixth printing published in 1981. Moderate wear to the dust jacket; dust jacket is price clipped. Light bowing to the boards. Foxing to the top of the text block. Tight binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, sixth printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Sixth printing of the original LSU edition published in 1981. Minor creasing to the dust jacket; slight tear along the lower spine of the dust jacket. Minor wear to the dust jacket. Tight binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. In good condition a bit of tape has been removed from the back so the isbn doesnt get seen.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover First Edition 5th Printing (stated), binding tight pages bright, excellent unmarked copy w/slightly darkened spine & mild foxing to board & page block edges, lacking the scarce dust jacket; 8vo; 338pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A fourth printing of the original edition in very good condition, but the jacket has a triangular area of loss on the front panel and further loss to the back panel with a spine that is rubbed and worn. A nice book in just a good jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. 2004 LSU Press hard cover - Large Print Edition - 1st printing THUS - a fine clean like new copy with like new dust jacket now in mylar cover - enjoy.

HARDCOVER. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE. 1ST EDITION. Louisiana State University, USA, 1980, hardcover, 1st edition, near fine book in a near fine jacket, clipped jacket, gift inscription on inside front book cover else unmarked, not remaindered, bookclub or library.

First Edition. A Confederacy of Dunces, Louisiana State Univerity Press, 2000, fine in like slipcase. 1/495 copies of this, the specially bound 20th Anniversary Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. Lousiana State University Press, 1980 first American edition, third printing. 338p, book in very good condition with original dust jacket with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket, first edition, 6th printing, 2nd issue dustjacket (May 1981) (Foreward by Walker Percy).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Protected jacket and covers in fine shape, price intact, binding straight, pages clean and unmarked. This is a seventh printing of the 2000 reprinting of the 1980 20th anniversary edition. A new Introduction by Andrei Codrescu, original foreword by Walker Percy. A highly collectible author whose novel won the Pulitzer Prize.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Lindlof, Ed (Wrapper Illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. 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!" This book's unusual path to success began in 1976 when John Kennedy Toole's mother Thelma, using a walker, hobbled into the office of novelist Walker Percy at Loyola University. She was followed by a chauffeur carrying a manuscript that she told Mr. Percy was a ''masterpiece''. Percy reluctantly agreed to read it. He became entranced as he read, and decided that the novel was ''a major achievement, a huge comic-satiric-tragic one-of-a-kind rendering of life in New Orleans.'' After several more publishers rejected the book, Louisiana State University Press agreed to take a chance with a first printing of only 2,500. The soon to be Pulitzer Prize winner went on to 50,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 600,000 in paperback within three years. Manufactured in the United States of America. 338 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

first uk edition 338pp VG+ (cream cloth,sl.foxed spine and content edges,spine cracked and sl.cocked) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed w.spine mod.sunned,sl.wear to upper edge) v.tidy copy.

Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover , First edition, stated " Fourth Printing" on the copyright page. Book is in Fine to As New condition. Binding is very tight, and it is highly likely this book has never been read. NO marks in or on the book, no bookplates, etc. Exceptionally clean with no flaws. Dustjacket is the second state, with Chicago Sun-Times blurb on back cover, DJ is price clipped. DJ has minor wrinkling at top & bottom of spine , but no missing pieces. A very nice later printing for Pulitzer Prize collectors.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Lindlof, Ed (Wrapper Illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. 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). Presented here is "a great slob of a man in violent revolt against the entire twentieth century!" This book's unusual path to success began in 1976 when John Kennedy Toole's mother Thelma, using a walker, hobbled into the office of novelist Walker Percy at Loyola University. She was followed by a chauffeur carrying a manuscript that she told Mr. Percy was a ''masterpiece''. Percy reluctantly agreed to read it. He became entranced as he read, and decided that the novel was ''a major achievement, a huge comic-satiric-tragic one-of-a-kind rendering of life in New Orleans.'' After several more publishers rejected the book, Louisiana State University Press agreed to take a chance with a first printing of only 2,500. The soon to be Pulitzer Prize winner went on to 50,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 600,000 in paperback within three years. Manufactured in the United States of America. 338 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The first UK edition (first printing), issued a year after the considerably more common US edition. 8vo. vii, 338pp. Cream boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge very lightly spotted, and with a little staining to the fore edge. Some uneven toning to the backstrip cloth, which appears to be a fault common to this production. Former owner name boldly inked to the front free endpaper, and a few inked words to the rear pastedown. A good bright copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, quite faded at the spine panel and with the publisher's laminate lifting a fraction in one small area. The author's posthumously published Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, detailing the many, many mis-adventures of the oh-so splendidly named Ignatius Jacques Reilly. (Toole penned his novel 'The Neon Bible' first, at the age of just sixteen, but it was not published until nearly a decade later). This UK edition was supposedly limited to 1,500 copies, one thousand less than the US edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Louisiana State University Press - LSU Press, Baton Rouge. 1980. 338 pages. First edition, third printing, stated. Original DJ with $12.95 price intact on DJ flap and no Pulitzer sticker on front; or any mention of the Pulitzer anywhere on DJ. Walker Percy blurb on rear; however this is the second state DJ with the Chicago Sun Times blurb in the black area, at the top of DJ rear. Despite this, the DJ remains desirable thanks to no Pulitzer mention, hence an early printing. Binding and hinges are strong. Panels, endpapers and pages are all bright and clean; no writing within. Book's only flaw is a minor one; three consecutive pages' cornertips were dogeared, and since flattened-out. In regards to the DJ, Shallow shelf-rub induced chips at crown, and corner folds. Small closed edge tear along rear top edge. A touch of soiling to DJ front, and rear flap. Considering the first printing of this Pulitzer winner was a minuscule 2,500 copies, these early printings remain sought after. Sadly, the author committed suicide, and had no idea his manuscript would ever be published, let alone go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. VG+/VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1980 at title page and copyright page. Stated second printing. Light green full cloth boards, black stylized spine titles, moderate shelf, corner wear. Pages generally very good; no writing. Couple at back, lower text block with moderate discoloration. Light olive green endpapers. Bind fine, square. Scarce near very good second (2nd) printing. 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!" This book's unusual path to success began in 1976 when John Kennedy Toole's mother Thelma, using a walker, hobbled into the office of novelist Walker Percy at Loyola University. She was followed by a chauffeur carrying a manuscript that she told Mr. Percy was a ''masterpiece''. Percy reluctantly agreed to read it. He became entranced as he read, and decided that the novel was ''a major achievement, a huge comic-satiric-tragic one-of-a-kind rendering of life in New Orleans.'' After several more publishers rejected the book, Louisiana State University Press agreed to take a chance with a first printing of only 2,500. The soon to be Pulitzer Prize winner went on to 50,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 600,000 in paperback within three years. Manufactured in the United States of America. 338 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST EDITION SECOND PRINTING IN second ISSUE DUST JACKET NOT PRICE CLIPPED.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A second printing in about very good condition with tanning to pages . The jacket has wear and chips with small areas of loss. First state jacket with a single Walker Percy quote on the back panel. An early second printing in a first state jacket with moderate wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, small tear, light wear. Stated fourth printing. Price $12.95 on the flap. No marks from prior ownership.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First paperback edition. Foreword by Walker Percy. Page edges a little darkened, faint creases on the spine, sound and very good or better. Inscribed by Walker Percy to Matthew Monahan. Posthumously published novel that won the Pulitzer Prize. *Burgess 99.*.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lindlof, Ed (Wrapper Illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by professor and author Walker Percy on tipped-in leaf prior half-title page: "Walker Percy." Percy, a professor and author himself, was instrumental in having this discovered gem miraculously published. 1980 at title page and copyright. Stated second printing. Light beige w/hint of green, full cloth boards, black stylized spine titles, light shelf wear. Pages near fine with attractive toning; no writing. Light olive endpapers. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Original first edition dust wrapper without Sun-Times review blurb at back panel, moderate edge wear, rub, crease; unclipped 12.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Scarce very good second printing in same first edition wrapper. The author of this hilarious satire, 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. pungeant 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!" This book's unusual path to success began in 1976 when John Kennedy Toole's mother Thelma, using a walker, hobbled into the office of novelist Walker Percy at Loyola University. She was followed by a chauffeur carrying a manuscript that she told Mr. Percy was a ''masterpiece''. Percy reluctantly agreed to read it. He became entranced as he read, and decided that the novel was ''a major achievement, a huge comic-satiric-tragic one-of-a-kind rendering of life in New Orleans.'' After several more publishers rejected the book, Louisiana State University Press agreed to take a chance with a first printing of only 2,500. The soon to be Pulitzer Prize winner went on to 50,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 600,000 in paperback within three years. Manufactured in the United States of America. 338 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Signed by Contributor.