London, Allen Lane, 1981
First UK edition. The first UK edition of the American writer John Kennedy Toole's (1937-1969) picaresque tale of the antihero Ignatius J. Reilley. Published posthumously 11 years after the author's untimely death, A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981.
First UK edition; 8vo (20.5 x 13.5 cm); publisher's ivory cloth, gilt spine, original pictorial dustjacket with design by Ed Lindlof, unclipped, spine of cloth with minor browning, dustjacket spine slightly faded, isolated instance of minor wear to bottom-edge, otherwise internally very clean, near-fine; vii, [5], 338pp.
First UK edition; 8vo (20.5 x 13.5 cm); publisher's ivory cloth, gilt spine, original pictorial dustjacket with design by Ed Lindlof, unclipped, spine of cloth with minor browning, dustjacket spine slightly faded, isolated instance of minor wear to bottom-edge, otherwise internally very clean, near-fine; vii, [5], 338pp.
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