Conroy Jack Ed (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 446 pages. Some wear and discoloring to the covers; a good sound binding; no jacket. A perfume odor inside. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Humor; Inventory No: 186629.

Condition: Very Good. 1973. Paperback. Ex Libris with usual markings. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1973. Paperback. Ex Libris with usual markings. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. . . . .

Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. 234 pages. The page edges are well tanned and foxed. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size E: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. First Edition. DETAILS NEEDED. SIGNED by editor Jack Conroy on the ffep, above which his wife has added "Ethel +". Anthology of humorous prose and verse, tapping "the rich stream of Midwestern humor, beginning at its source when the Midwest was the frontier." Includes contributions by Ernest Hemingway, Carl Sandburg, Eugene Field, James Thurber, Mark Twain, Peter Finley Dunne, Ring Lardner, Nelson Algren, Vincent Starrett, and others. Signed by Editor.

Hb. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 234pp Stories and poems from the radical American magazine; contributors include: E Caldwell, N Algren, M Gold, M leSueur, J T Farrell, L Hughes etc.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 176pp, printed wrappers. This scarce later issue includes work by a range of contributors and a Golden Age DC Comics collage cover. Unmarked copy, light wear and toning. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 288pp, printed wrappers. This scarce issue includes the full text of The Fake Revolt by Gershon Legman, plus paintings by Manny Farber and work from many other interesting contributors. (Raymond Carver is listed on the masthead as an associate editor.) Small ink notation to inside back cover (else unmarked), a little wear to covers. Not Signed.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A signed presentation copy of this charming anthology of humorous writings from the American Midwest. The first edition, first printing.Inscribed to the front free endpaper by the editor with 'For my friend, Mark Reinsberg, a gentleman, scholar, judge of good licker [sic], horseflesh and women, and also an excellent outfielder and cricket "bat" (whatever that is) from Honest Jack Conroy, the barefoot boy of Moberly, Missouri. Chicago, April 30, 1953'.The dedicatee, Reinsberg, was a prominent science fiction fan between the 1930s and 50s, and chaired 'Worldcon' in 1940.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A delightful anthology with contributions from writers such as Alphonso Wetmore, Mark Twain, Eugene Field and Raymond Weeks.With an inscription to the dust wrapper rear wrap over the photograph of the editor, Jack Conroy, reading 'Jack Conroy known far and wide as "Daddy-o"'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, and unclipped dust wrapper. Back strip tail lightly age toned with light shelf wear, otherwise exceptionally bright. Inscription to front free endpaper. Small loss of paper to tail of dust wrapper back strip, with more significant loss to back strip head. Inscription to rear wrap. Tape repairs to dust wrapper reverse running the length of the head of the wrapper, and to the back strip tail and flyleaf folds. These tape repairs result in offsetting to the right side of the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.