And Jack Conroy (23 results)

- Softcover
Seller: books4less (Versandantiquariat Petra Gros GmbH & Co. KG), Welling, Germanybooks4less (Versandantiquariat Petra Gros GmbH & Co. KG)
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Broschiert. Condition: Gut. 234 Seiten; Das Buch ist ordentlich erhalten und kann altersbedingte Gebrauchsspuren aufweisen. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 325.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1942
- Hardcover
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.UHR Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Smells musty; typical library marks and general use wear. A reading copy. Burton, Virginia Lee (illustrator). Ex-Library.

- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Abstract Books, Edinburgh, IN, U.S.A.Abstract Books
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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 Previously unpublished children's story by this noted Black author. 87 pages, introduction by Jim Haskins, b/w illustrations by Daniel Minter; blue boards/cloth.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).
Published by Lawrence Hill and Company, New York, 1973
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerxxi, 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.
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Seller: Pages Past--Used & Rare Books, Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.Pages Past--Used & Rare Books
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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 sticke…r 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.

Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1951
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA
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Add to basketHardcover. 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.

That I May Live Lobby Card 1937 Robert Kent, J. Edward Bromberg, rare!
Directed by Allan Dwan / Starring Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent, J. Edward Bromberg, Jack La Rue, and Frank Conroy
Published by 20th Century-Fox, 1937
- First Edition
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.AcornBooksNH
Contact seller5-star sellerNo Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A VG or better original release 11 x 14 lobby card. Poster.

- Hardcover
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Bolerium Books Inc.
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Hardcover. xv, 292p., very good condition in like dust jacket. American Cultural Heritage Series 2.
Published by Hill and Wang, 1966
- Softcover
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.Du Bois Book Center
Contact seller4-star sellerSoft cover. Condition: Fair. Index. Selected list of references and sources. 372pp. Pictorial soft cover with edges rubbed and title on spine.

- Softcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

- Softcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1951
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.Valley Books
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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).

Writers in Revolt. The Anvil Anthology 1933 - 1940. Stories and Poems
Nelson Algren, James T. Farrell, Frank Yerby, Jesse Stuart, Langston Hughes and others. Edited by Jack Conroy & Curt Johnson
- Softcover
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United KingdomSAVERY BOOKS
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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.
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Published by Chicago, Illinois: W. B. Thorsen, 1971
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Seller: Wimbauer Buchversand, Hagen, NRW, GermanyWimbauer Buchversand
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Add to basketHeft. 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 Anvi…l (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.

Published by B.C. Hagglund, Publisher, Chicago, 1940
- Softcover
- Magazine / Periodical
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Bolerium Books Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerMagazine. 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.
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, New York, 1945
- Hardcover
Seller: 4 THE WORLD RESOURCE DISTRIBUTORS, Springfield, MO, U.S.A.4 THE WORLD RESOURCE DISTRIBUTORS
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Edges worn. Corner of title page cut off.; Ex-Library; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.Bluff Park Rare Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 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 , 2…9 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. Burton, Virginia Lee (illustrator).

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Wheelwrite Imaginarium Bookshop, Manchester CTR, VT, U.S.A.Wheelwrite Imaginarium Bookshop
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Add to basketHardcover. 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 despit…e 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.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1942
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.McBlain Books, ABAA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 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. Virginia Lee Burton (illustrat…or). Signed.
More imagesSam Patch the High & Wide Handsome Jumper, SIGNED By Arna Bontemps, in Color Dustjacket,Harlem Renaissance novelist and poet. COLOR Illustrated by Paul Brown , Here he reimagines for children the life of the early 19th-century performer and legendary champion leaper (Niagara Falls, etc.)
By Arna Bontemps, and Jack Conroy, ,COLOR Illustrated by Paul Brown, SIGNED By Bontemps, Inscribed on the title page "For Katherine Anne - Arna Bontemps/ 2-19-51". ,INNER DJ Flap $2,, Brown & RED White Illustrated Endpapers, Harlem Renaissance novelist and poet.
Published by Boston: Houghton Mifflin,, 1951
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.Bluff Park Rare Books
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Add to basketHardcover. 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 pg…s, BACK OF DJ CHIPS TO EXTREMITIES, 39 PGS. Signed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by Boston: Houghton Mifflin, riverside Press, 1942
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.Bluff Park Rare Books
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Add to basketHardcover. 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).
More imagesThe Fast Sooner Hound , SIGNED By Arna Bontemps, COLOR Illustrated by Virginia Burton, IN COLOR DUSTJACKET INNER DJ FLAP $3.23, Sooner outruns the trains. A tall tail from the West.
By Arna Bontemps, and Jack Conroy, ,COLOR Illustrated by Virginia Burton, SIGNED By Bontemps, Inscribed on the title page "For Mary- Arna Bontemps/ 2-19-51". INNER DJ FLAP $3.23 BTM , BACK DJ Flap AD Don Coyote,,Green, Brown & White Illustrated Endpapers
Published by Boston: Houghton Mifflin,, 1942
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.Bluff Park Rare Books
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Add to basketHardcover. 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 Dol…phin 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).

Published by Dean and Company, New York, 1929
- First Edition
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.Babylon Revisited Rare Books
Contact seller4-star sellerFirst Edition. An uncommon collection of poetry from the 19th and 20th Centuries. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket.