World Win by Conroy Jack (8 results)
Published by Covici, Friede, New York, 1935
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc.
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover with Dust Jacket. vg++ signed on the fist black page in a good+ dust jacket (loc. Mike).
More imagesPublished by Covici Friede, New York, 1935
- First Edition
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.Babylon Revisited Rare Books
Contact seller4-star sellerFirst Edition. Andor Braun dustjacket design. Labor and social themed novel concerning the son of migrant worker and Missouri spinster. RIDEOUT, p.296 Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, shallow edge chips and wear.
Published by Covici Friede, New York [1935], 1935
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.Stony Hill Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
£ 110.88
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover in light gray cloth with dark green lettering, clean bright tight and unmarked, some light stains on both pastedowns apparently from the endpaper glue; dust jacket with light edge rubbing and very slight age toning, price-clipped with new "…$2.50" price blacked out; jacket protected in mylar cover.
Published by COVICI, FRIEDE., NY, 1935
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA
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£ 152.94
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. A near fine copy in a Vg.+ dj. (Couple of small chips at spine ends, with short edge tears & light touches of shelfwear to dj. ) A better than average copy of the author's SECOND novel.
Published by Covici Friede, New York, 1935
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.Fireproof Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 348 pages. First edition, first printing. His second book, A Ridout Novel. Dust jacket design by Andor Braun. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with the spine slightly darkened. Price clipped with a new $2.50 price stamped next to the clip. A beautiful… copy.
Published by Covici Friede, New York, 1935
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
£ 191.18
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 348pp, Sharp First Edition of the author's second book. Bound in grey cloth with lettering in green on front board and spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of softness to spine ends. Charles Lauriat Bookseller ticket… on front end-paper. Very attractive clipped dust-jacket, ($2.50 stamped on the top of the front flap), has some mild edge-wear and a couple of short closed edge-tears. Nick at the top front tip. Still fresh, bright and complete. A very pretty collectable copy.
Published by Covici Friede, 1935
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller4-star sellerCloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition.Stunning Copy. Fresh jacket and Book.Author's Rare Second Book.Gorgeous Copy.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.Bauman Rare Books
Contact seller4-star sellerFirst Edition. CONROY, Jack. A World to Win. (New York): Covici Friede, (1935). Octavo, original grey cloth, original dust jacket. $1200.First edition of the second novel by this important American "worker-writer," inscribed by him,"For AÑ MÑ- a book written many years ago but I hope you'll find it of interest. Best wishes from…Jack Conroy with hospitalization for diabetes. Sincerely Jack Conroy, Moberly, September 26, 1978."Conroy, "a premiere midwestern novelist, editor, and folklorist," was linked "with the region from the time of his birth in the Monkey Nest coal camp on the outskirts of Moberly, Missouri. His Irish immigrant father, who had studied for the priesthood, died in a mining accident," along with three of his brothers when Conroy was still a boy. Later known as the "Sage of Moberly," Conroy worked throughout the 1920s as a migratory worker, and one of his first published works, "Hard Winter," "was accepted by H. L. Mencken's American Mercury in 1931, when he was digging ditches and sleeping on a sandpile. He went on to organize and edit from his Moberly home two significant journals, the pioneering Rebel Poet (1931) and the influential Anvil (1933)," which "published Richard Wright for the first time" (Buhle, Encyclopedia of the American Left, 163, 51). In 1933 he published his first book, The Disinherited, followed two years later by A World To Win. Both novels contained extensive autobiographical elements that cemented his reputation as one of America's most important proletarian writers. Conroy's writings are particularly "nourished by Midwestern currents of radicalism, the old labor press, and homegrown varieties of populist and socialist culture and politicsÉ his sources are Southwestern humor, vernacular protest and indigenous radicalism"(Wixon, Worker-Writer, 72). Price stamp to dust jacket front flap.Book near-fine with mild discoloration to rear pastedown. Scarce price-clipped dust jacket near-fine, with slight fading to spine, one small chip to rear panel. Signed.
