Accession number
PML 198530
Creator
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990, editor.
Published
New York : Current Books, Inc. ; A. A. Wyn, publisher, 1947.
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe, Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020.
Notes
Includes 3 poems by Gwendolyn Brooks reprinted from her collection A Street in Bronzeville.
Description
xviii, 446 pages 22 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper: "For my good friend Gwendolyn Brooks, in admiration of her own fine work, and with the hope she'll find a laugh or two here. Jack Conroy, Chicago, Jan 24, 1948."
Provenance
From the library of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Summary
Contains contributions by George Ade, Nelson Algren, Gwendolyn Brooks, Peter De Vries, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Carl Sandburg, Booth Tarkington, James Thurber, Herman Fetzer, Joseph M. Field, Caroline Kirkland, John S. Robb, Alphonso Wetmore, Robert Jones Burdette, Finley Peter Dunne, Eugene Field, John Hay, E.W. Howe, T.A. McNeal, Julia A. Moore, Petroleum V. Nasby (David Ross Locke), George W. Peck, M. Quad (Charles Bertrand Lewis), Opie Read, James Whitcomb Riley, Mark Twain, Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne), Ten Eyck White, Jack Balch, Frank Marshall Davis, Leonard Dubkin, C.L. Edson, Amos R. Harlin, Sydney J. Harris, Kin Hubbard (Abe Martin), Ben Krit, Della T. Lutes, Ruth McKenney, Kenneth W. Porter, Keith Preston, Vance Randolph, Max Shulman, Vincent Starrett, Bert Leston Taylor, Raymond Weeks, Wil Wharton, Wendell Wilcox, Charles Morrow Wilson, Howard Wolf, and Robert M. Yoder.
Binding
Gray cloth, spine decorated in red and lettered in blue; lacking the dust jacket.
Classification
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