NMLP P-015500 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole · Louisiana State University Press · 1980

US LSU Press is the true first; UK Allen Lane (1981) is later. The small first printing makes genuine firsts scarce and valuable; later LSU printings add printing statements.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-015500 for "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-015500, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).