A Confederacy of Dunces SIGNED
John Kennedy Toole
Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London, 1980
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First edition, second printing. Early printing dust jacket - lacking the Walker Percy quote at the rear panel. Signed by author Walker Percy, who wrote the foreword for the book, on a professionally tipped in page from a signed limited edition, therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. This book measures approximately 9.25" x 6", with 338 numbered pages. This book is in very good plus condition. Minor stain to the foredge of the textblock. Interior pages are bright and clean. Dust jacket is in very good plus condition. Minor wear to both ends of spine and on corners of jacket. Original $12.95 price is present on the front flap. "A Confederacy of Dunces" remained unpublished for 11 years after the author's death. Toole's mother convinced Walker Percy to read the manuscript, who in turn convinced LSU to publish the book. The book went on to become a cult classic and earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. The novel's central character is an educated but slothful 30-year-old man living with his mother in the Uptown neighborhood of early 1960s New Orleans, who in his quest for employment, has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(O8-72). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6485
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Titel: A Confederacy of Dunces SIGNED
Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1980
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers
Auflage: First Edition, Second Printing.
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A Confederacy of Dunces with Signed Walker Percy Bookplate
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Softcover
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Anbieter: Mullins Books, Grottoes, VA, USA
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Grove Press, 1982. First paperback edition, first printing. Good condition with vintage New Orleans and Ignatius referenced gift inscription on inner cover. Signed Walker Percy bookplate laid in. Written by John Kennedy Toole and published posthumously in 1980, the novel became a cult classic and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. Its protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly, is an unforgettable, larger-than-life character whose misadventures and scathing critiques of the world around him provide sharp social commentary. The novel's blend of humor, pathos, and keen observation makes it a distinctive voice in American literature, and its story of how the manuscript was championed by Toole's mother and brought to publication by author Walker Percy adds to its legacy. The novel is celebrated not only for its literary merits but also for its role in highlighting the richness of Southern literature and the complexities of human experience. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 311399
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A Confederacy of Dunces SIGNED
Verlag:
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London, 1980
Gebraucht
Hardcover
Erstausgabe
Signiert
Anbieter: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, USA
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First Edition, Second Printing. First edition, second printing. First issue dust jacket with the Walker Percy blurb on the rear panel. Signed by author Walker Percy, who wrote the foreword for the book, on a professionally tipped in page from a signed limited edition, therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. This book measures approximately 9.25" x 6", with 338 numbered pages. This book is in very good plus condition. Minor wear to the foredge of the textblock. Interior pages are bright and clean. Dust jacket is in good plus condition. Chipping and creasing to the extremities. Original $12.95 price present on the front flap. "A Confederacy of Dunces" remained unpublished for 11 years after the author's death. Toole's mother convinced Walker Percy to read the manuscript, who in turn convinced LSU to publish the book. The book went on to become a cult classic and earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. The novel's central character is an educated but slothful 30-year-old man living with his mother in the Uptown neighborhood of early 1960s New Orleans, who in his quest for employment, has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(O8-73). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6484
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A Confederacy of Dunces SIGNED
Verlag:
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London, 1980
Gebraucht
Hardcover
Erstausgabe
Signiert
Anbieter: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, USA
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
First Edition, Second Printing. First edition, second printing. First issue dust jacket with the Walker Percy blurb on the rear panel. Signed by author Walker Percy, who wrote the foreword for the book, on a professionally tipped in page from a signed limited edition, therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. This book measures approximately 9.25" x 6", with 338 numbered pages. This book is in very good plus condition. Minor wear to the edges of the boards. Minor stain at the top of edge of the textblock. Interior pages are clean. Dust jacket is in very good condition. Minor wear to the extremities. Large closed tear on the front panel. "A Confederacy of Dunces" remained unpublished for 11 years after the author's death. Toole's mother convinced Walker Percy to read the manuscript, who in turn convinced LSU to publish the book. The book went on to become a cult classic and earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. The novel's central character is an educated but slothful 30-year-old man living with his mother in the Uptown neighborhood of early 1960s New Orleans, who in his quest for employment, has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(O8-74). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6483
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A Confederacy of Dunces SIGNED
Verlag:
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London, 1980
Gebraucht
Hardcover
Erstausgabe
Signiert
Anbieter: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, USA
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing with no additional printings listed on the copyright page. First issue dust jacket with the Walker Percy blurb on the rear panel. Signed by author Walker Percy, who wrote the foreword for the book, on a professionally tipped in page from a signed limited edition, therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. This book measures approximately 9.25" x 6", with 338 numbered pages. This book is in very good plus condition. Minor staining to the edges of the textblock with an indentation to the lower corner of the textblock. Dust jacket is in near fine condition. Minor edgewear to both ends of spine and flap folds. Original $12.95 price present on the front flap. "A Confederacy of Dunces" remained unpublished for 11 years after the author's death. Toole's mother convinced Walker Percy to read the manuscript, who in turn convinced LSU to publish the book. The book went on to become a cult classic and earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. The novel's central character is an educated but slothful 30-year-old man living with his mother in the Uptown neighborhood of early 1960s New Orleans, who in his quest for employment, has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(M2-2). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3897
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A Confederacy of Dunces [First Printing with Signed Correspondence of Thelma Ducoing Toole]
Verlag:
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London, 1980
ISBN 10: 0807106577
ISBN 13: 9780807106570
Gebraucht
Hardcover
Erstausgabe
Signiert
Anbieter: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Lindlof, Ed (Wrapper Illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. True first edition; 1980 at title page and copyright pages without additional printings stated. One of only 2,500 of the first printing. Tan full cloth boards, black stylized spine titles, light shelf wear. Pages generally near fine, no writing; few at front with little discoloration at edge. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Dust wrapper, light shelf wear, rub; unclipped 12.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Features the classic humored wrapper illustration by Ed Lindlof. First edition wrapper, without Chicago Sun-Times blurb, and Walker Percy summmary review at rear panel. Rare near fine first edition in same wrapper. Includes original hand written signed letter and play-list by Thelma Ducoing Toole dated February 7, 1982. Mrs. Toole was the mother of John Kennedy Toole, author of "A Confederacy of Dunces." Beautifully composed message contains songs for the seasons and 'nostalgic' songs. One of which written by Thelma Toole entitled "New Orleans" and another "Everywhere You Go" for her son, John Kennedy Toole. Original envelope w/New Orleans post office stamp features Thelma's address label and the American flag 20 cent stamp of the time. Letter has been folded twice and once more vertically. It was through Thelma Toole's great efforts that her late son's satirical novel was finally posthumously published with assistance from professor and author Walker Percy. The unique satire soon garnered much acclaim and then the Pulitzer, twelve years after her son took his life in despair from rejection of this very novel. He did this at 31 years of age in 1969 after facing consistent rejection from nearly every American publisher. "A masterwork of comedy. pungent slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities. make for a grand comic fugue!" - NYT. 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 Author's Mother. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 021166
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