They Seek a City [*SIGNED*]

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. [minor wear to extremities, light age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket has some very shallow chipping at the top of the spine (with small internal brown-tape reinforcement), modest soiling to the rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by co-author Conroy on the front endpaper: "Here's to Cliff and Maxine / McCarty, who came / seeking a city -- sunny / exotic Moberly -- and / found it, by George. / Siempre / Jack Conroy / Moberly / June 10, 1978." Classic study of "the Negro pioneers who left the South in search of freedom and tolerance." Republished (and substantially rewritten) in 1966 under the title "Anyplace But Here." The inscribee, Cliff McCarty, was a longtime Los Angeles-based bookseller. Signed by One Author .