A Confederacy of Dunces

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. First Edition, one of only 2500 copies printed, in first-state dustwrapper without the Chicago Sun-Times blurb. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Near fine in publisher’s cloth and unclipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First Edition, one of only 2500 copies printed, in first-state dustwrapper without the Chicago Sun-Times blurb. 8vo. First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical masterpiece which had a very small first printing (reportedly 2500 copies). Acclaimed by critics and beloved by readers, the story of Ignatius J. Reilly's crusade against the modern era quickly became seen as a comic masterpiece and went through a succession of printings. Burgess 99