The section shown here talks about their early success with the book - 'At this point, mid-April 1980, the situation stands like this: our initial printing of 2,500 copies, which is what we have done of our earlier novels, has had to be supplemented by a second printing of 5,000, six weeks before publication. It gives background on how this small university text book publisher stumbled across an american classic. This is a memo from the publisher, Louisiana State University Press, that came with many first printings. Picture of the title page for A Confederacy of Dunces. Picture of the back dust jacket flap for A Confederacy of Dunces. Picture of the first edition Louisiana State University Press boards for A Confederacy of Dunces. Later issue jackets have a Chicago Sun-Times blurb. Picture of dust jacket where original $12.95 price is found for A Confederacy of Dunces.įirst issue of the dust jacket has Walker Percy's blurb about the uniqueness of the book on the rear panel. Picture of the first edition copyright page for A Confederacy of Dunces. Picture of the 1980 first edition dust jacket for A Confederacy of Dunces. To find the market value for this book, click on the pre-filled eBay, AbeBooks, or Biblio links to the right and look for comparable listings that have all of these first edition points. Only 2,500 copies of the first printing were produced.Ī Confederacy of Dunces book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She finally got Walker Percy to read the manuscript, and Percy convinced the Louisiana State University press to publish it in 1980. His mother went to many publishers in an attempt to have the book published. He committed suicide in 1969 without seeing the book published. John Kennedy Toole wrote the book in the 1960's. First issue of the dust jacket has Walker Percy's blurb on the rear with no other blurbs. The Copyright page should have no references to a second, third, or other printings. It should have matching dates of 1980 on the title page and the copyright page.

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