Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. First edition. A Fine copy in like dust jacket. First state jacket with stars in the background of the black portions of the jacket and no Chicago Sun-Times review on the rear panel. Dust jacket with a spot of minor abrasion, but still an excellent example, with the original lettering color still present.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981, A Confederacy of Dunces depicts the satirical adventures of Ignatius J. Reilly as he saunters around New Orleans, looking for work and railing against modern culture. The book was written in the early 1960s, but wasn’t published until 1980, eleven years after Toole's suicide, when the author's mother, Thelma Toole, took the manuscript to Walker Percy and essentially forced him to read it. In his introduction, Percy recalled the experience of encountering the manuscript for the first time: “There was no getting out of it; only one hope remained – that I could read a few pages and that they would be bad enough for me, in good conscience, to read no farther…In this case I read on. And on. First with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit, then with a prickle of interest, then a growing excitement, and finally an incredulity: surely it was not possible that it was so good.” Fine in Fine dust jacket. (Item #8056)