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CONROY, Jack (1899-1990). The Disinherited. New York: Covici Friede Publishers, [1933]. 8vo. [2, blank], 310, [6, blank] pp. Publisher’s full brick-red cloth, spine ruled and lettered in black, in the scarce publisher’s unclipped (“$2.00”) dust jacket (cloth spine and boards somewhat edgeworn, endleaves a bit toned and offset; jacket spine toned and chipped with a large chip missing on the tailcap, four tape repairs to jacket verso, jacket overall toned, edgeworn and chipped). A very good copy in a fair dust jacket. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST NOVEL, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED ON THE FFEP: “For Fannie Sloan with very best wishes, Jack Conroy Chicago Nov. 13, 1938 and let this be a lesson to you: never gamble again.” Conroy was the first “worker-writer,” who wrote fiction and nonfiction about American labor and its challenges, and was one of the first authors in the United States to write from the point of view of the worker. In his lifetime, he won several awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the State of Illinois Literary Times Award, an NEA Artist’s Grant, the Society for Midwestern Literature’s Mark Twain Award, and more.