Johnson Curt Eds (10 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Complete issue, original wrapper. Includes work by Howard Nemerov, Paul Engle, Donald Justice, Anthony Burgess, Joyce Carol Oates, James Dickey, George Garrett, Herbert Gold, and many others.

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.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. xxi, 234 pp. Introduction by Jack Conroy. Other contributors include Nelson Algren, Langston Hughes, Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, William Carlos Williams, Michael Gold, Kenneth Patchen and Karl Shapiro. Price-clip on the front free endpaper, pages yellowed due to cheap paper but the book is still crisp and clean otherwise. Jacket has a bit of edgewear, some rubbing and the price blacked out on the front flap. …

Original publisher's white paperback, pictorial front- & backcover, large 8vo: viij, [ij], 264pp., [12]pp., richly illustrated, 24 contributions, afterword. Very fine copy..

1st edition hardback in original cloth Nice copy tall octavo 190pp., col. & b/w pls., No dust jacket & a neat ownership signature but a nice copy.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a few closed tears. Stories and poems by Nelson Algren, James T Farrell, Langston Hughes and many more, taken from 7 years of issues of The Anvil.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 234 pp.

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.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy large octavo 190pp., col. & b/w pls., Nice copy in unclipped chipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 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.…

1st edition chipped dust jacket Very Good tall octavo 190pp., col. & b/w pls., Nice copy in unclipped chipped dust jacket.