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"A MAJOR AMERICAN NOVEL": RARE PRESENTATION FIRST EDITION OF DISINHERITED, 1933, INSCRIBED BY JACK CONROY

CONROY, Jack. Disinherited. New York, 1933.

First edition of a memorable presentation copy inscribed by Conroy with a nod to his birthplace in Moberly Missouri, dated within days of publication, "For My Friend & Comrade, Leo Lipp, with sincere regards, Jack Conroy, Moberly Mo. Nov 30, 1933 (That's Thanksgiving day for some people!)"—this rare copy accompanied by two laid-in photographs also inscribed by him, one of a young Conroy in a black-and-white photograph, inscribed below the image, "For Leo Lipp with fraternal regards, Jack Conroy Sept 4, 1933," the other a color photograph of him nearly three decades later, standing beside a large commemorative plaque noting Moberly as "the birthplace of writer Jack Conroy," with his inscription on the right corner of the image, in faint red ink reading, "for my friend Leo Lipp, Jack Conroy, Chicago 10-2-61." $2400.

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"KEY TO A RECONSTRUCTION OF A BLACK RADICAL LITERARY TRADITION"

BROWN, Frank London. Trumbull Park WITH: Racial Terror. Chicago, 1959, 1954.

First edition of Brown's first novel, praised on publication by Langston Hughes and hailed as "vigorous and exciting" by the New Yorker, issued the same year as the Broadway premiere of Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun—in effect opening its story at her play's conclusion—a distinctive association copy with laid-in printed slip from the Frank London Brown Trust Fund addressed to fellow author and activist Jack Conroy in the year of Brown's death, this copy accompanied by Mayhew's Racial Terror at Trumbull Park. $1250.

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