And Jack Conroy (27 results)

Broschiert. Condition: Gut. 234 Seiten; Das Buch ist ordentlich erhalten und kann altersbedingte Gebrauchsspuren aufweisen. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 325.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Burton, Virginia Lee (illustrator). Smells musty; typical library marks and general use wear. A reading copy. Ex-Library.

xxi, 234 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. The text is very slightly tanned (but not at all brittle); otherwise fine in a fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 39 Pp. Yellow Cloth. First Printing, With 1951 Date On Title Page. Light Wear, Soiling To Lower Half Of Front Cover. No Marks.

No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A VG or better original release 11 x 14 lobby card. Poster.

Hardcover. xv, 292p., very good condition in like dust jacket. American Cultural Heritage Series 2.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Index. Selected list of references and sources. 372pp. Pictorial soft cover with edges rubbed and title on spine.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 39pp., biege cloth binding. Color illustrations by Paul Brown. Light wear and soiling, faint red scribbling on back cover. Inscribed to J.F. Powers by Jack Conroy "For all the Powers of/St. Cloud, Young and not-so-young, from an/old feller who never could/leap as high as Sam/and now can hardly raise/enough energy to brush/away the blue-tail fly/let along crack corn/Jack Conroy/Chicago/April 8, 1956". Powers and Conroy were friends and they had some correspondence over the years. This copy is from the library of J.F. Powers and is signed by his daugher Katherine and dated July, 1999, when she became executor of his estate. Powers won the 1963 National Book Award for his novel "Morte D'Urban" and his other novel was a finalist for the same award in 1988. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback 1973. SPINE HAS A LIGHT CREASE. Front end paper has a neatly written name. TANNED PAGES. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref O1995. Writers in Revolt. The Anvil Anthology 1933 - 1940. Stories and Poems by Nelson Algren, James T. Farrell, Frank Yerby, Jesse Stuart, Langston Hughes and others. Edited by Jack Conroy & Curt Johnson. Published in 1973 by Lawrence Hill, New York, U.S.A.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Bontemps, Arna and Jack Conroy, illustrator. (illustrator). CONDITION: Very Good in Very Good jacket; ex-lib, some marks, light intermittent soil, 1" tear on endpaper gutter in clean white jacket with 3/8" tear at bottom corner; unclipped 3.23. Picture Book Hardback, ex-lib. Sooner outruns the trains. A tall tail from the West. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. Bontemps, Arna and Jack Conroy, illustrator.

Heft. Condition: Befriedigend. 32 Seiten Kanten gering bestossen, leichtere papierbedingte Seitenbräunung.- Themen u.a. Joachim Kirchner Festschrift,Pepry's Diary (William White), Melville in Anthologies (Richard Colles Johnson), Freed Allen, literary man (John Brady), I Was looking a long while (Mary F. Kiely), Days of the Anvil (Jack Conroy), Teh Rebel Poet Manifesto; A preliminary Checklist of the Writings of Jack Conroy (John Gordon Burke), London again May 1971 (Herbert Faulkner West) /// Standort Wimregal NIKK-2054 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 74.

Magazine. 30p., stapled wraps, 7x9.75 inches, wraps a bit soiled, minor internal soiling, a light vertical crease affects cover and text, paper browned else good condition. Conroy was the editor, Algren the managing editor.

First edition. xxi + 234 pp w/contributor notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Jack Conroy. Work by Caldwell, Farrell, Algren, Langston Hughes, Yerby, and many others.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Edges worn. Corner of title page cut off. ; Ex-Library; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dj. First Edition. [nice tight copy, minimal shelfwear, light age-toning to pages, a few pages diagonally creased at upper corners; the jacket is a little tanned along the spine, otherwise unblemished]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by co-editor Conroy on the front endpaper: "For ______, / with appreciation for her / interest in these writings of / an earlier times, many of / them and their authors to [sic] / deepy [sic] entombed in general / neglect, I believe. / Best always, / Jack / Moberly, / Jan 22 1976." An anthology of stories and poems of a radical nature that had originally appeared in The Anvil, The New Anvil, and The Rebel Poet, little magazines published in the Midwest during the 1930s and early 1940s. Includes work by John C. Rogers, August Derleth, Erskine Caldwell, Joseph Vogel, Nelson Algren, Michael Gold, Meridel Le Sueur, Jack Conroy, William Carlos Williams, James T. Farrell, Frank Yerby, Kenneth Patchen, Jesse Stuart, Orrick Johns, John Malcolm Brinnin, Langston Hughes, Karl Shapiro, and others. (Among the "others," not considered worthy of inclusion in that dust-jacket rundown, was Sanora Babb (misspelled "Sonora" in the Table of Contents), represented by her story "Dry Summer," originally published in 1934.) Signed by Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Burton, Virginia Lee (illustrator). 1st Edition. HBDJ, VG-/VG, BOOK COVER OBLONG GREEN Illustrated CLOTH VG- CONDITION WITH FADE SPOTS TO EDGES, DJ VG LITE RUB WEAR TINY EXTREMITIES CHIPS, 1970 on Copyright PG, . 1st Edition, 18TH PRINTING, NO Date printed on Title page, .Early ISSUE Dustjacket , 29 pages,GREEN CL Illustrated of Dog running cloth binding APPROX 9 1/4 X 8 1/2 IN. Color illustrations by Virginia Lee Burton. Light general wear, a few cover blemishes. . Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Saul Lambert (illustrator). Revised Edition First Printing. [light shelfwear, very slight bump to lower front corner, a few very slightly scrunched lower page corners; the jacket has a few tiny nicks along the top and bottom edges, minor scuffing to the front panel, some fading at the spine]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by co-author Conroy on the front endpaper: "For my old friends / Gib and Liz Roche / hoping this will / recall the old South / side days / Jack / 4-18-64." Classic study of African-American migration within the United States, originally published in 1945 under the title "They Seek a City." In a new preface for this edition, author Bontemps states that in the original book they "were dealing with currents that were still running vigorously [and that] to that extent our book was premature. . Needless to say, twenty years of change and unforeseen developments have made it necessary to recast most of the original chapters of the book and to add a number of new ones." Selected bibliography; index. Signed by One Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY JACK CONROY with an autobiographical 5-line inscription to Conroy's friends Warren and Ann Medford. Stated first printing with $5.95 price on flap. A revised and expanded version of THEY SEEK A CITY, with new chapters on Marcus Garvey, the Black Muslims, Malcolm X, and Detroit, Chicago, and Watts. Book is fine and else unmarked. Jacket has a small corner nick, light spine edge-rubbing, and light dust offsetting to rear panel, but is else very good, bright and protected by a Mylar plastic cover, Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Virginia Lee Burton (illustrator). 14th printing. color illustrations by Burton, famous for her illustrations of "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel." Dust Jacket in nice shape despite couple of barely noticeable tears, protected in Mylar. Price clipped but NO writing of any kind. Small tear to corner of last (blank) page. Beautiful copy of this children's classic from the early forties.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Virginia Lee Burton (illustrator). 13th printing. color illustrations (by Virginia Lee Burton), 28p. Pictorial boards. dj. Oblong 22cm. Jacket rather stained and worn. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. SIGNED on title-page by Bontemps (in 1969). Children's book. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ dj. First Edition. [minor wear to extremities, light age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket has some very shallow chipping at the top of the spine (with small internal brown-tape reinforcement), modest soiling to the rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by co-author Conroy on the front endpaper: "Here's to Cliff and Maxine / McCarty, who came / seeking a city -- sunny / exotic Moberly -- and / found it, by George. / Siempre / Jack Conroy / Moberly / June 10, 1978." Classic study of "the Negro pioneers who left the South in search of freedom and tolerance." Republished (and substantially rewritten) in 1966 under the title "Anyplace But Here." The inscribee, Cliff McCarty, was a longtime Los Angeles-based bookseller. Signed by One Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, CHIP TO FRONT TOP & BTM EDGE DJ & Small residue, 1951 On Copyright pg, 1st Edition, SIGNED, VG- , AS-IS, MENDED CHIP REPLACEMENTS TO EXTREMITIES OF DJ , OBLONG binding with YELLOW cloth ILLUSTRATED Boards SOME SMUDGING & Pencil mark WEAR. 4to, 39 pgs, BACK OF DJ CHIPS TO EXTREMITIES, 39 PGS. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inner Hinges Starting Cracked, ,Green, Brown & White Illustrated Endpapers ,HBDJ, 1942 On Copyright pg, 1st Edition, 1ST PRINTING, BK GOOD with Interior pg Slight soil Foxing / DJ VG with tiny Extremities chips tears LITE Crease on back, AS-IS, SCRUFFY & SOILED OBLONG CLOTH cvr binding with GREY OATMEAL ILLUSTRATED Boards with chip btm Spine .INTERIOR PGS LITELY FOXED ,First Printing dust jacket as all titles listed on flaps are pre 1942 "Sad-faced Boy, Choo Choo, Mike Mulligan" and on the rear flap "Don Coyote" by Leigh Peck. Everyone knows that Houghton Mifflin denoted its First Printings by having the date appear on the title page. This book is the only exception and doesn't have the date on the title page. To identify it as a first it must not list subsequent printings, which this does NOT. ,Oblong Quarto, 28 PGS , Grey boards in rough condition with multiples staining/foxing marks. Dust Jacket in VG Condition like it was stored for years, dust jacket price clipped and has small "F Bon" to front top right of dust jacket in pencil. A wonderful example of a rare Burton title. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1942 On Copyright pg, 1st Edition, EARLY ISSUE, , NO Date on Title Page, .Early ISSUE Dustjacket $3.23 ON FLAP, VG/VG+, NOT X-LIB. Trade OBLONG binding with Brown Rust cloth ILLUSTRATED Boards. Same illus as DJ which has SMALL Blue & Silver Dolphin Sticker, . Book is very good- with some spotting on top & bottom edges of green cloth (scans available). DJ is very good+ to near fine- . Outstanding full color art by VIRGINIA LEE BURTON (CALDECOTT MEDALIST). 28 PGS, Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. An uncommon collection of poetry from the 19th and 20th Centuries. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket.