Conroy Jack Bontemps (43 results)

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

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. Previously unpublished children's story by this noted Black author. 87 pages, introduction by Jim Haskins, b/w illustrations by Daniel Minter; blue boards/cloth. Fine; near fine dust jacket. Minter, Daniel (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 319 Pp. Red Cloth, Spine Lettered In Black. First Printing. Near Fine, In Dust Jacket Priced $4.95, Worn, With Small Losses At Corners. Ownership Signature Of Jazz Journalist Paul W. Blair, Crossed Out, Also Signature Of ?? "Joseph A. Winly".…

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.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 319 Pp. Red Cloth, Spine Lettered In Black. First Printing. Near Fine, In Dust Jacket Priced $4.95, Which Is Worn, Short Tears, With Small Losses At Corners. No Marks.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Tight unmarked book in crisp dust jacket.; 10.1 X 6.9 X 1.3 inches; 336 pages.

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).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Ex-library, with book rebound in library buckram. Shelf wear and rubbing to the spine edges and corners. Corners slightly bumped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 'Slappy Hooper: The Wonderful Sign Painter' by Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy. Houghton Mifflin Company 1946. Bookplate. Child's scribble to the front endpaper.Front hinge split. Rubbing and sunning to the covers. Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket missing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 372 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. Brodart included.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. SIGNED by Jack Conroy with a personalized inscription: "For my friend Sylvia Royt, whose footsteps I have followed from Meine's enferno (Coneo's Folly) to Valhalla. Jack Conroy Chicago April 24, 1947". First Edition, 1946. Tightly bound in blue cloth with embossed, illustrated cover. Light rubbing to the edges and a faint stain, remains Very Good. The contents are bright and unmarked. The rear endpaper has a single fold. The unclipped dust jacket has chipping and one large 5" chip, Poor only. Signed by Author(s). …

Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.01.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition, Thus. Octavo. Black dust jacket with yellow brick decorations. Very good, dust jacket with light edge wear heaviest at spine ends, rear panel slightly darkened, pages very lightly agetoned, some pencil markings in margins.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Pictorial Boards. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1974. ex school library 1942 edition, later printing, no date ?1974, illustrated by Caldecott winner Virginia Lee Burton. You can still find books like this in thrift shops and at sales, but it's getting to be a while [30 to 60 years], particularly for children's books and library discards. One of the last in the great tradition of children's train books, this one is in very good minus condition, but it's gorgeous all the same, a story of a dog so fast he could race trains, just for the joy of it. Burton wrote and illustrated something like seven books, and provided the art for another four or so. She died at 59 in 1968. In 2007 a first edition of her book, The Little House, sold for just under $10,000. Virginia Lee Burton (illustrator). …

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing of this early history of the Great Migration of Black Americans from the South to northern and western cities in the first half of the 20th Century, co-authored by major Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps. Cloth, 266 pages. No dust jacket. Has a previous owner name inked on the front endpaper and edge wear. …

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

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Burton, Virginia Lee (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Oblong brown cloth. This appears to be one of the rare titles by this publisher where the first edition does not have matching dates. No additional printings. Bumps to the corners but with little other wear. Very clean and tight. The toned dust jacket has minor chips to the corners and spine ends. There are several short tears. Original price of $1.75 to the front flap. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 28 pages. Illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton (illustrator).…