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TOOLE, John Kennedy (1937-1969). A Confederacy of Dunces. Foreword by Walker Percy. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. 8vo. [xii], [1]-338, [2, blank] pp. Original publisher’s pale green cloth, spine lettered in black; publisher’s price-clipped dust jacket (jacket spine rubbed, some faint dampstaining to tailcap of jacket spine, a few small marginal tears to jacket panels). Very good. FIFTH PRINTING. “This novel has a sad history behind it. The author sent it to every publisher in America, all of whom rejected it. After the final rejection (by Knopf) Toole committed suicide. He was only thirty–two. His mother gave the manuscript to Walker Percy, who secured its publication by Louisiana State University Press, and it was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. Its virtues have now been universally recognized… New Orleans can be the same again after Toole’s comic masterpiece” (Burgess, 99 Novels 125).