Conroy, Jack

THE DISINHERITED [Signed]

New York, NY: Covici Friede Publishers, 1933. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 310 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good minus condition dust jacket. Aged tan spine with black designs and lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$2.00", has mild shelving wear, moderate wear along the extremities, moderate chipping along the extremities, tears on the front cover, and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the extremities, mild bending wear on the fore corners, and moderate age-toning along the head and tail edges. Textblock is lightly cocked, has mild soiling throughout, moderate wear along the hinges between pages 222-225, splitting to gutter from pages 13-47, bending along the tail fore corner of the front end-page, moderate age-toning along the end-pages, adhesive staining along the end-pages, soiling on the pastedowns, moderate age-toning along the edges, mild wear along the edges, stains along the edges, and faded black inking along the head edge. Inscription on front end-page reading "For Frank Justin with sincere regards," signed Jack Conroy, dated "Jan. 23.1934". DL consignment. Shelved Room C.

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NOTES

Jack Conroy was born December 5, 1899 Monkey Nest near Moberly, MO. Monkey Nest was a coal mining camp where Conroy's parents, themselves Irish immigrants, had settled for work. Growing up there alongside working various jobs from an auto factory worker to recording secretary for the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America, a trade union, fed Conroy's leftist writings. "The Disinherited" would be Conroy's first novel published in 1933 after being rejected at 13 publisher's. It was subjected to revisions after it's acceptance, crafting a fictional narrative from what was originally a true account. It would release to mixed reviews, many unsure how to review Conroy's writing style which he himself called "fictional documentation" in introductions of later editions. Many also wrote the novel off as propaganda as the novel supports freedom achieved through collective action rather than by individual merit. It is hailed today as one of the first works of proletariat fiction written by someone from a firsthand working class experience.