Edited by Jack Conroy (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Clean unmarked very good plus, jacket chipped and torn.

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.…

ADVANCE REVIEW COPY with old review slip laid in VERY GOOD in very worn internal tape reinforced dust jacket, contributors include NELSON ALGREN, GWENDOLYN BROOKS, PETER DEVRIES, ERNEST HEMINGWAY, RING LARDNER, CARL SANDBURG, BOOTH TARKINGTON, JAMES THURBER, JACK CONROY and many other. 1st edition.

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

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.…

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