Foreword Walker Percy (35 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Colorful Cover Art (illustrator). 1 Evergreen ED. GOOD Condition PAPERBACK, CLEAN, SOLID, 1" CORNER FOLD, OW QUITE NICE COPY ; cover shows familiar man with ORANGE PARROT, SOLID BLUE BACKGROUND.Distinctive cover has ORANGE,not Yellow, and Solid Blue, not apt building ballcanies.(sp); 405ps pages; Pulitzer Comedy.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.

Trade paperback. Condition: Very Good. 20th Anniversary ed. In Very Good+ condition. A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's suicide. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) and Toole's mother, Thelma, the book became first a cult classic, then a mainstream success; it earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981, and is now considered a canonical work of modern literature of the Southern United States.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. xvi, 187pp. Just a touch of wear to covers and dust-jacket. Text clean. Binding sound. A nice copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A nice copy. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Book is in good condition, but has been opened too far, and has crease in spine, and part of book is starting to pull away from the spine. ISBN number on back cover has been removed. Small torn area on spine, and light smudge on fore edge.

Paperback. Condition: G. Illustrated by Myron Grossman, cover (illustrator). Clean text, cover and spine creases, cover edge tear, several pages have light creasing ;

Condition: Very Good. 1776343274. 4/16/2026 12:41:14 PM.

Hard cover. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. reprint. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 480 p. Audience: General/trade. near new.

Condition: Acceptable. Item in acceptable condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Stated 1st Edition. Witty and profound account of growing deaf. Nice bright crisp copy of HB 1st. 5-3/4 x 8-1/2, 270 pp. Fine unmarked; in Fne unclipped jacket. Hardcover in black/blue boards w gilt spine titling; in white illus jacket.

Paperback. Condition: New. This incomparable epic comic classic catapulted its author into the pantheon of contemporary American novelists. 405p. Pap.

Condition: Good. Good Condition. Has tearing. Please read before purchase: Has severe spine crack - must be read gently - pages still intact. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 416 pages. 7.05x4.49x1.14 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 352 pages. 7.72x5.12x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine with near fine dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are bumped at spine tips and at bottom back corner. 187 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. cover art by Sanjulian (illustrator). Black Cat softcover Good. First paperback edition third printing stated. Posthumously published novel that won the Pulitzer Prize.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 14th Printing. Dust jacket has light edgewear, pages have tanned, small red dot on top edge, otherwise very clean and well bound without flaw. 5.25 X 7.25" 462 pages of pure delight. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel featuring Ignatius Reilly and his marvelous, madcap adventures in New Orleans. "A confederacy of Dunces has been reviewed almost everywhere, and every reviewer has loved it. For once, everyone is right." - Rolling Stone The Washington Post says: "A corker, an epic comedy, a rumbling, roaring avalanche of a book." **Bundle Up & Save On Postage**.

Condition: Good. Light scuffs & scratches to the softcover. Tanned textblock edge. Content is in very good, clean condition.

Hardcover. Third printing. Octavo, vii, 338 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine is brown with cream print. Dust jacket in mylar; slight edge wear. Price clipped. Boards in tan cloth. Text block has slight smudge to fore edge. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1405981. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. 35th Anniversary edition. Octavo, vii, 348 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with orange print. Dust jacket in mylar. Boards in red cloth. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1401595. FP New Rockville Stock.

No direct edition/printing statement provided (per Pelican's inconsistent practice) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xiv, 304 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Blue dust jacket rubbed; some scuffs, bumping, creases, and short tears at edges. Blue boards; bumping to spine ends and at front board's top left. Six-line ink inscription "4 April 1997 | To Congressman | Bob Livingston. Thank | you. | Northshore Republican | Men's Club | Jim Le Blanc, Pres." on front free endpaper; author's scrawled ink signature on title page; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. Laid-in at front endpapers is a folded sheet of United States Representative Robert L. Livingston's congressional office stationery further evidencing the book's provenance. Republican Bob Livingston served as U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 1st District from 1977 to 1999 and chaired the House Appropriations Committee from 1995 to 1999 as well as being House Speaker-designate before his resignation from office. ISBN 0882892525.

25.5x19cm. First edition. History of the early development of flying in Britain, from military ballooning during the war in South Africa 1899-1902 to the beginnings of the aeroplane era 1909-1910. ppXVI,283,(1) with 65 monochrome photo & other illustrations, in-text figures, and index. Single production flaw:- upper outer corner of one leaf of text - pages 69/70 - folded prior to edge-trimming, resulting in sharp crease (confined to margins) across the corner, and leaving corner when folded back out a little oversized and protruding from text-block. Hardback / hard cover: dark blue boards, backstrip titled in gilt. VERY GOOD copy in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket a little nicked at head and foot of backstrip panel, a little rubbed at corner tips, and with corner creases on both front and rear flaps; in VERY GOOD illustrated card slipcase a little rubbed at corners and along one upper edge.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Ed Lindlof (illustrator). Anniversary Edition. With a new introduction by Andrei Codrescu for this edition, and the original introduction by Walker Percy. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Mylar jacket cover.

Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Used. 1st Edition. Small neat previous owner name and date at top of front free endpaper, else very clean inside, unmarked, 304 pages. Dust jacket shows mild shelfwear including light staining and fraying at top edge, other small nicks along edges. Includes numerous drawings and photographs of parish history. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 273 printed pages of text with colour photographs to the centre. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. SIGNED by the Author to the front free end paper ' 2-8-03 To Vick, Trust that you find time to sit down and read this first book of mine and that it gives you a lot of pleasure. With Best Wishes, Percy Salmon, Author'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0954005503 MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Lindlof, Ed (Wrapper Illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. 1980 at title page and copyright page. Stated eighth printing. Oatmeal colored full cloth boards, black stylized spine titles, fine. Matte mustard lime endpapers. Pages fine; no writing. Bind fine, square. Dust wrapper, slight wear; unclipped 14.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Wrapper features gold medallion at front panel: "Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction". Sadly, the author, John Kennedy Toole, took his own life at 32, after facing consistent rejection from nearly every American publisher. Toole's mother, finally was able to have her son's work posthumously published; and, as fate would have it, the satirical novel won the Pulitzer Prize. "A masterwork of comedy. pungent slapstick, sature and intellectual incongruities. make for a grand comic fugue" (New York Time). Presented here is "a great slob of a man in violent revolt against the entire twentieth century!" This book's unusual path to success began in 1976 when John Kennedy Toole's mother Thelma, using a walker, hobbled into the office of novelist Walker Percy at Loyola University. She was followed by a chauffeur carrying a manuscript that she told Mr. Percy was a ''masterpiece''. Percy reluctantly agreed to read it. He became entranced as he read, and decided that the novel was ''a major achievement, a huge comic-satiric-tragic one-of-a-kind rendering of life in New Orleans.'' After several more publishers rejected the book, Louisiana State University Press agreed to take a chance with a first printing of only 2,500. The soon to be Pulitzer Prize winner went on to 50,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 600,000 in paperback within three years. Manufactured in the United States of America. 338 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Lindlof, Ed (Wrapper Illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. 1980 at title page and copyright page. Stated: "Seventh Printing (June, 1981). Tan with greenish tint, full cloth boards, black stylized spine titles, fine. Pages fine; no writing. Bind fine, square; remains tightly bound and relatively as new. Dust wrapper, fine; unclipped 12.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Matches first printing in design and quality with classic Ed Lindloff wrapper illustration; identical to the third printing with Chicago Sun-Times blurb at back jacket panel. Sadly, the author, John Kennedy Toole, took his own life at 32, after facing consistent rejection from nearly every American publisher. Toole's mother, finally was able to have her son's work posthumously published; and, as fate would have it, the satirical novel won the Pulitzer Prize. "A masterwork of comedy. pungent slapstick, sature and intellectual incongruities. make for a grand comic fugue" (New York Time). Presented here is "a great slob of a man in violent revolt against the entire twentieth century!" This book's unusual path to success began in 1976 when John Kennedy Toole's mother Thelma, using a walker, hobbled into the office of novelist Walker Percy at Loyola University. She was followed by a chauffeur carrying a manuscript that she told Mr. Percy was a ''masterpiece''. Percy reluctantly agreed to read it. He became entranced as he read, and decided that the novel was ''a major achievement, a huge comic-satiric-tragic one-of-a-kind rendering of life in New Orleans.'' After several more publishers rejected the book, Louisiana State University Press agreed to take a chance with a first printing of only 2,500. The soon to be Pulitzer Prize winner went on to 50,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 600,000 in paperback within three years. Manufactured in the United States of America. 338 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, 1980. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, SECOND Printing. First state DJ. Not price-clipped ($12.95). As new. Unread.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lindlof, Ed (Wrapper Illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by professor and author Walker Percy on tipped-in leaf prior half-title page: "Walker Percy." Percy, a professor and author himself, was instrumental in having this discovered gem miraculously published. 1980 at title page and copyright. Stated second printing. Light beige w/hint of green, full cloth boards, black stylized spine titles, light shelf wear. Pages near fine with attractive toning; no writing. Light olive endpapers. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Original first edition dust wrapper without Sun-Times review blurb at back panel, moderate edge wear, rub, crease; unclipped 12.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Scarce very good second printing in same first edition wrapper. The author of this hilarious satire, John Kennedy Toole, took his own life at 32 after facing consistent rejection from nearly every American publisher. Toole's mother, finally was able to have her son's work posthumously published; and, as fate would have it, the satirical novel won the Pulitzer Prize. "A masterwork of comedy. pungeant slapstick, sature and intellectual incongruities. make for a grand comic fugue" (New York Time). Presented here is "a great slob of a man in violent revolt against the entire twentieth century!" This book's unusual path to success began in 1976 when John Kennedy Toole's mother Thelma, using a walker, hobbled into the office of novelist Walker Percy at Loyola University. She was followed by a chauffeur carrying a manuscript that she told Mr. Percy was a ''masterpiece''. Percy reluctantly agreed to read it. He became entranced as he read, and decided that the novel was ''a major achievement, a huge comic-satiric-tragic one-of-a-kind rendering of life in New Orleans.'' After several more publishers rejected the book, Louisiana State University Press agreed to take a chance with a first printing of only 2,500. The soon to be Pulitzer Prize winner went on to 50,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 600,000 in paperback within three years. Manufactured in the United States of America. 338 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Signed by Contributor.