Conroy Jack Editor (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good with fair to good dust jacket. Dust jacket front flap is stuck to a small bookstore sticker at bottom corner. Dust jacket is also worn at spine tips and corners with a 1/2 inch chip at top of spine and a one inch tear at bottom of spine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The front covers gutter is stained and the spine is sunned and edges lightly chipped. Pages are clean and bright, text has no markings, binding is sound. Prior owner name on fep. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Libris.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 446pp. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [1st printing](1945) #139. Small paperback, 4.5" x 3". Cover art and interiors are uncredited. Includes "Love or How to Woo and Win a Woman" by Jack Goodman & Alan Green; "Gramp Buys a Valentine" by Stephen Longstreet; "The Best Time for Family Quarrels" by Don Herrold; "A Weekend at Lady Astor's" by Frank Sullivan; "The Sissy from the Hardscrabble County Rock Quarries" by Jack Conroy; "Dining Out for the Last Time" by Irving D. Tressler; "A Rustic in the City" by Eliot White Springs; "A Very Dangerous Invention" by Mac Adeler; "Son of a Sloganeer (A Story)" by Richard Connell. Creasing; rubbing; rusty staples; minor upper rear cover edge tear. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 441 pages of humorous stories. Gray boards have edgewear, darkened spine. End pages browning. Gift inscription on fep. Text is clean & unmarked, binding is tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Libris.

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".

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Literary magazine edited by H.L. Mencken. Includes Jack Conroy's "Hard Winter" and additional contributions by Louis Gold, H.L. Davis, Robert Collyer Washbur, Arthur Kroch and others. A very good copy in green yapped wrappers with some expected light soiling and small chips and light wear. Internally a clean copy.

Paperback. 123p., very good paperback poetry journal in goldenrod printed wraps.

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.

Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth. xviii, 446pp. Very good. Lacks jacket, but a tight, clean and attractive copy nonetheess -- and signed boldly by Conroy on the front flyleaf. Bookplate on half-title page. First edition.

Paperback. Condition: New. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition. Chicago, Illinois: W. B. Thorsen, 1971. New and unread copy of the FIRST EDITION. NO owner's name or address label. Very mild age toning. This copy is from the publisher's surplus inventory which we acquired along with the magazine's archives -- now housed at the John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Vol. XXI #8, Summer. 1971. Jack Conroy, author of "The Disinherited" contributes "Days of the Anvil" an illustrated memoir of the period when Chicagoans Nelson Algren, Richard Wright and others joined with him to produce one of the most important "Little Magazines" i.e. DAYS OF THE ANVIL. Includes a bibliography of Jack Conroy's writings, compiled with his help. Charles Heartman's American Book Collector lasted 36 issues before publication ceased in 1935. In 1950, William B. Thorsen began a new magazine called The Amateur Book Collector. However, he soon received permission from Heartman's widow to change the name to American Book Collector. There were 233 issues published before its demise in 1976. A third incarnation of the American Book Collector, unrelated to the others, appeared in 54 issues between 1980 and 1987. . First Edition. Softcover. New. Illus. by NOT a library discard. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Heft. 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 Anvil (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.

Moberly, Missouri: The Anvil Press, Sept-Oct, 1933. 8vo. 32 pp. Color-illustrated side-stapled wrappers. Mild toning, wrappers beginning to separate, small chip to corner of front wrapper with large ink annotation to head of same, VG+. The second issue of The Anvil, the midwest-published magazine of proletarian fiction which ran for 13 issues from 1933-1935, before folding into The Partisan Review (it was subsequently revived as The New Anvil.) This issue features Walter Snow, Granville Hicks, August Derleth, and others, and has a striking, unsigned cover illustration of a worker at the forge, captioned with a quote by Lenin. Copies of any issue of the original run are rare in the market place.

Jones, Joseph (illustrator). Moberly, Missouri: The Anvil Press, Jan.-Feb., 1934. 8vo. 32 pp. Side-stapled wrappers with lino-cut in red by Joseph Jones. A trifle toned, but near fine. ANNOTATED FILE COPY of The Anvil, the midwest-published magazine of proletarian fiction which ran for 13 issues from 1933-1935, before folding into The Partisan Review. (It was subsequently revived as The New Anvil.) Copies of any issue of the original run are rare in the market place. The cover is marked "FILE COPY of 2nd colored cover," and includes a number of other annotations inked in red and black in two different hands. With a few annotations and underlines within, including of a favorable comment in an ad for Conroy's novel The Disinherited, and a comment at the head of Alfred Morang's story "Death in the Rain" (repeated on the front cover): "A dull, meaningless sketch of a drab, proletarian death.".