The Jack Conroy Reader

Octavo. 292 pages. Hardcover in a blue and white faded dust jacket. There is moderate wear to the jacket. Covers are rubbed. Edges bumped and there is small tear at the top front corner edge. The back cover is toned and has several liquid stain marks. Old price sticker on the back cover. Outer edges of the text block are foxed. There is foxing to the title page and several subsequent pages. The text is toned but clean and sound. Illustrated with a few black and white photographs. There is an interesting non-authorial inscription on the title page, "No wonder the proletariat died out- they were dead to begin with- Grace & elegance are not pejorative hallmarks of an. (?) as so many of the unwashed taken (?) types believe.- H.M." Jack Conroy (John Wesley Conroy), 1899-1990, was an American writer known for proletarian literature and wrote fiction and non-fiction about the American worker in the early 20th century.