Writers in Revolt: The Anvil Anthology [*SIGNED* by Conroy]

New York/Westport: Lawrence Hill and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy, minimal shelfwear, light age-toning to pages, a few pages diagonally creased at upper corners; the jacket is a little tanned along the spine, otherwise unblemished]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by co-editor Conroy on the front endpaper: "For ______, / with appreciation for her / interest in these writings of / an earlier times, many of / them and their authors to [sic] / deepy [sic] entombed in general / neglect, I believe. / Best always, / Jack / Moberly, / Jan 22 1976." An anthology of stories and poems of a radical nature that had originally appeared in The Anvil, The New Anvil, and The Rebel Poet, little magazines published in the Midwest during the 1930s and early 1940s. Includes work by John C. Rogers, August Derleth, Erskine Caldwell, Joseph Vogel, Nelson Algren, Michael Gold, Meridel Le Sueur, Jack Conroy, William Carlos Williams, James T. Farrell, Frank Yerby, Kenneth Patchen, Jesse Stuart, Orrick Johns, John Malcolm Brinnin, Langston Hughes, Karl Shapiro, and others. (Among the "others," not considered worthy of inclusion in that dust-jacket rundown, was Sanora Babb (misspelled "Sonora" in the Table of Contents), represented by her story "Dry Summer," originally published in 1934.) Signed by Editor .