Conroy Jack Bontemps (41 results)

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED by Jack Conroy with a personalized inscription: "For Sylvia and Kevin Royt;, high, wide and handsome friends of Jack Conroy who hopes they will emulate all of Sam's qualities other than his proficiency in jumping (you could break a leg that way!) Chicago, February 17, 1951." First Edition, 1951. Tightly bound with a few smudges and very slight bump at spine ends. The contents have a few smudges otherwise almost fine. The unclipped dust jacket has chipping and fading at the spine, remains Good. A nice copy. Signed by Author(s).

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.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Brodart included.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton (illustrator). 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.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Lightly cocked spine.

Softcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very Good, a few minor marks on the side of the text block.

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.