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TOOLE, John Kennedy (1937-1969). A Confederacy of Dunces. Foreword by Walker Percy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. 8vo. [xii], [1]-338, [2, blank] pp. Publisher’s full beige cloth, spine stamped in black, publisher’s unclipped (“$12.95”) dust jacket with Percy’s blurb on the rear jacket panel (cloth spine a bit soiled and rubbed, mild occasional edgewear to jacket). Near fine. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF BOOK AND JACKET, ONE OF ONLY 2,500 COPIES PRINTED. This book was published 11 years after the author’s death, shepherded into print by Walker Percy at the behest of Toole’s mother, Thelma. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. In this picaresque novel, Toole created one of the most enduring characters of modern Southern fiction: Ignatius J. Reilly, the overweight, self-important windbag, beloved by modern readers the world over.