Edition: 1981 First Black Cat edition, third printing Condition & Characteristics: Slight pen smudging on the back cover and book block, previous owner’s name written inside front cover. Slight lean to binding but otherwise good condition. Tight binding, clean text. Very cool cover painting by Sanjulian. Description: A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).