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1930rif. 467a8390Toronto: Longman's Green and Co. 1930. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Canadian Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 188 pages. Cute colour illustrations. Originally published in U.S. in 1924. Above-average wear. Some lean to spine. Back hinge going. School marks inside each board. Few marks to contents. Longman's, Green and Co. Hardcover
1853rif. 55480NY: Harper & Brothers. Very Good. 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's blindstamped brown cloth. Corner wear tear/loss to spine head slight loss to heel of spine foxing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; ix3804 pages . Harper & Brothers hardcover
1794rif. 16306Philadelphia:: R. Aitken & Son 1794. contemporary straight-grained plum morocco. Lacking the final three leaves consisting of ads and a blank. Armorial bookplate; some light rubbing to extremities. 5-1/4 x 3-1/4 inches. Evans 27114. R. Aitken & Son, unknown
1933rif. 30067NY: Farrar and Rinehart. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1st Edition. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth over flexible boards gilt lettering on spine blind-stamped borders and gilt lettering on cover fore-edge deckle. NB. William Hervey Allen Jr. 1889 – 1949 was an American educator poet and writer. He is best known for his work Anthony Adverse made into a 1936 movie of the same name regarded by many critics "as the model and precursor of the contemporary American historical novel.". Gilt lettering on spine faded head and heelof spine lightly worn else fine; unmarked tight square and clean. NEAR FINE. Decorations. Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall. xi 1224 pages . 1933. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover
1934rif. 0088622New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1934. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Green cloth with gilt titles inscribed by Hervey Allen clean unmarked text good copy minor tear to the front flyleaf's top edge small label on the rear pastedown discoloration and light wear to the book's covers no dust jacket. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover
1937rif. 445468Mount Vernon: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Walpole Printing Office 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited edition this is number 1252 of 1500 copies printed. Three volume set. New introduction by the author. Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. Spine gilt tarnished else fine housed in a very good worn slipcase with chipping on open edges one edge split. Signed by the illustrator on limitation page of volume three. Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Walpole Printing Office hardcover
1934rif. 24938New York:: Farrar & Rinehart 1934. publisher's green gilt cloth in publisher's slipcase with applied color illustrations. Bookplate on each pastedown; spines a little sunned; otherwise very nice in a slipcase with some splitting along one joint and other minor use. . Large 8vo. Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Pen Docorations by Allan McNab. Farrar & Rinehart, hardcover
1925rif. h46345NY: New York: Harper and Brothers 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Publisher's black cloth in dust jacket book very good leather bookplate of Van R. Whitall on pastedown bookplate of University of Pittsburgh's Hervey Allen Collection on flyleaf with their discard stamp. Inscribed on flyleaf "Fr. Van's own hand eye and therefore affectionately from Hervey Allen May 1926 small drawing of eyeglasses The curious spectacles herein for kindly eyes." Also with Allen's inscripton on front panel of jacket: "W. Van. R. Whitall's -- 'desk copy' H. A." Jacket good with some wear light loss short tears minor soil and discoloration. Provenance: University of Pittsburgh deaccession of duplicates from the Allen collection ca. 2014. Mrs. Whitall and Allen were friends in South Carolina and Allen gave to her the bound manuscript of "Anthony Adverse" the subject of a New Yorker article in 1934. Major Whitall was a well known book collector and bibliophile. Struck by Allen's poem "The Blindman" published in 1923 Whitall established "The Blindman Prize" a $250 annual prize for the best poem administered by the Poetry Society of South Carolina. It is clear from all this that Allen was very close to the Whitalls. Allen's account of the American front in France in the summer of 1918. Allen was born in Pittsburgh in 1889 graduated from Pitt in 1915 and served as a 2nd lieutenant in the 18th Pennsylvania Infantry on the Mexican border in 1916 during the Pancho Villa Expedition. That year he published a collection of poems Ballads of the Border. He also served as a lieutenant and later a company commander of Company "B" of the 1st Battalion 111th Infantry Regiment of the 28th keystone Division United States Army during World War I and fought in the Aisne-Marne offensive July-August 1918. After that he taught English at the University of Pittsburgh spent some time teaching in South Carolina where he met Dubose Heyward who became a close friend and collaborator. He published widely both poety and novels including a poetry collection that won the Yale Younger Poets award; his novel "Anthony Adverse" 1933 is probably his best known and most accomplished work considered one of the great examples of the modern historical novel. Harper and Brothers hardcover
1940rif. h46338NY: New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Cloth in dust jacket book very good bookplate from University of Pittsburgh's Hervey Allen Collection and their discard stamp hidden by dust jacket flap jacket good to very good general light edgewear and surface soil spine a little sun struck. Inscribed "Hervey Allen / His Book / 1 of six author's copies not to be taken from the house. 1-29-40. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover
1929rif. 68005New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The fourth collection of verse by Allen 1889-1949 the American author best known for his novel Anthony Adverse 1936. Presentation copy inscribed by Allen to the celebrated American poet Stephen Vincent Benet 1898-1943 on the front flyleaf. Small octavo. Original black cloth binding with gilt titles. The dust jacket is browned along the spine and folds; otherwise very good. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
1926rif. 41298New York: George H. Doran 1926. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Small 4to hardcover with olive green boards and a paper title on the spine. Limited edition 603/1000. A collection of Edgar Allen Poe's brother William Henry Leonard Poe's poetry and a history of the family. The condition of the book is Very Good binding intact though there is weakness at pg 63; general aging; little to no shelf wear; little to no interior damage. 93pgs. George H. Doran hardcover
1923rif. 622542New Haven: Yale University Press 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. Blue papercovered boards titled in silver. Small red leather gilt bookplate of Anne J. Smith on front pastedown which has offset onto the facing page else near fine lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Eugene Delafield. Yale University Press hardcover
1922rif. 11762New York:: James F. Drake 1922. First edition; No. 330 of 350 copies signed by the author. publisher's cloth-backed boards in glassine. Slight sunning to spine and edges of boards else a nice copy in glassine with some chips. 8vo. Illustrated by Bernhardt Wall. James F. Drake, hardcover
1926rif. h46344NY: New York: George H. Doran 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Book very good with light wear. Jacket pfair mainly complete but in two pieces now kept together by a jacket protector. Inscribed by Allen very fondly to Mrs. Whitall at their home in Pelham NY in 1926 including a four-line poem. Mrs. Whitall and Allen were friends in South Carolina and Allen gave to her the bound manuscript of "Anthony Adverse" the subject of a New Yorker article in 1934. Major Whitall was a well known book collector and bibliophile. Struck by Allen's poem "The Blindman" published in 1923 Whitall established "The Blindman Prize" a $250 annual prize for the best poem administered by the Poetry Society of South Carolina. It is clear from all this that Allen was very close to the Whitalls. Allen's account of the American front in France in the summer of 1918. Allen was born in Pittsburgh in 1889 graduated from Pitt in 1915 and served as a 2nd lieutenant in the 18th Pennsylvania Infantry on the Mexican border in 1916 during the Pancho Villa Expedition. That year he published a collection of poems Ballads of the Border. He also served as a lieutenant and later a company commander of Company "B" of the 1st Battalion 111th Infantry Regiment of the 28th keystone Division United States Army during World War I and fought in the Aisne-Marne offensive July-August 1918. After that he taught English at the University of Pittsburgh spent some time teaching in South Carolina where he met Dubose Heyward who became a close friend and collaborator. He published widely both poety and novels including a poetry collection that won the Yale Younger Poets award; his novel "Anthony Adverse" 1933 is probably his best known and most accomplished work considered one of the great examples of the modern historical novel. George H. Doran hardcover
1926rif. h46337NY: New York: George H. Doran 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Book good or better with some fading wear and discoloration to spine bookplate of the University of Pittsburgh's Hervey Allen collection and their discard stamp additional leather bookplate of W. Van R. Whitall also on pastedown. Jacket poor to fair mainly complete but in pieces now kept together by a jacket protector. Inscribed by Allen very fondly to Whitall: "W. Van R. Whitall Esq. who has listened patiently to many a long-winded tale of the times of battle inflicted at his own fireside - this essence of the stories now to him with all the affection and esteem of the many unreadable years. Hervey Allen New York City March 1926 'One of the first of the firsts.'" Whitall's wife and Allen were childhood friends in South Carolina and Allen gave to her the bound manuscript of "Anthony Adverse" the subject of a New Yorker article in 1934. Major Whitall was a well known book collector and bibliophile. Struck by Allen's poem "The Blindman" published in 1923 Whitall established "The Blindman Prize" a $250 annual prize for the best poem administered by the Poetry Society of South Carolina. It is clear from all this that Allen was very close to the Whitalls. Allen's account of the American front in France in the summer of 1918. George H. Doran hardcover
1937rif. 003888Mt. Vernon: Limited Editions Club 1937. Hardcover. Spines just a trifle dull. About Fine in an about Fine slipcase. Edward Wilson. Three octavo 6-1/2" x 10" volumes bound in orange linen with "The Artist's Note Upon the Lithographs" laid in. This important historical romance is here published a few years after its first publication with a new introduction by the author. Copy #1377 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with 9 striking lithographs drawn on the stone by Edward Wilson and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1937rif. 445468Mount Vernon: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Walpole Printing Office 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited edition this is number 1252 of 1500 copies printed. Three volume set. New introduction by the author. Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. Spine gilt tarnished else fine housed in a very good worn slipcase with chipping on open edges one edge split. Signed by the illustrator on limitation page of volume three. Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Walpole Printing Office hardcover books
1923rif. 622542New Haven: Yale University Press 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. Blue papercovered boards titled in silver. Small red leather gilt bookplate of Anne J. Smith on front pastedown which has offset onto the facing page else near fine lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Eugene Delafield. Yale University Press hardcover books
1916rif. h46342El Paso: McMath Printing Co 1916. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Author's first book. 6.75 x 5.25 inches softcover good plus copy with light spottiness and stains to front cover general light surface soil to binding else nice clean copy. 43 pp. Provenance: University of Pittsburgh deaccession of duplicates from Hervey Allen Collection ca. 2014. Allen was born in Pittsburgh in 1889 graduated from Pitt in 1915 and served as a 2nd lieutenant in the 18th Pennsylvania Infantry on the Mexican border in 1916 during the Pancho Villa Expedition. That year he published a collection of poems Ballads of the Border. He also served as a lieutenant and later a company commander of Company "B" of the 1st Battalion 111th Infantry Regiment of the 28th keystone Division United States Army during World War I and fought in the Aisne-Marne offensive July-August 1918. After that he taught English at the University of Pittsburgh spent some time teaching in South Carolina where he met Dubose Heyward who became a close friend and collaborator. He published widely both poety and novels including a poetry collection that won the Yale Younger Poets award; his novel "Anthony Adverse" 1933 is probably his best known and most accomplished work considered one of the great examples of the modern historical novel. McMath Printing Co unknown
2010rif. 309884London: Pickering & Chatto 2010. First edition. hardcover. very good/no dustjacket. 8vo. pp.361 Volume 8 in the Chawton House Library series previous owners name on FEP Pickering & Chatto hardcover
1948rif. allen_morningNew York: Rinehart 1948. First. hardcover. near fine/very good. Andrew Wyeth. Towards tbe Morning by Hervey Allen with illustrations by Andrew Wyeth. First edition first printing published by Rinehart in 1948. Near fine in a very good jacket. Apparently inscribed to actress Elizabeth Patterson by the author. Includes a guild review pamphlet with the corresponding illustrations and cover art by Wyeth. The third book in a triology of historical fiction 1st Rinehart hardcover
1875rif. 2818931875. unbound. very good-. 1 page on embossed personal stationery 7.25 x 4.5 inches August 13 1875 to an unidentified recipient in full: "I enclose a letter to the Christ Commission such as you suggest and hope it may be enclosed." Note: the Christ Commission undertook the rewriting of the Old Testament. Mounting remnants on the back; very good- condition. English prelate who served as Bishop of Bath and Welles from 1869 - 1894 and was one of the Committee of Revisers of the authorized version of the Old Testament. unknown
1875rif. 2818931875. unbound. very good-. 1 page on embossed personal stationery 7.25 x 4.5 inches August 13 1875 to an unidentified recipient in full: "I enclose a letter to the Christ Commission such as you suggest and hope it may be enclosed." Note: the Christ Commission undertook the rewriting of the Old Testament. Mounting remnants on the back; very good- condition. English prelate who served as Bishop of Bath and Welles from 1869 - 1894 and was one of the Committee of Revisers of the authorized version of the Old Testament. unknown books
1924rif. 10093New York & London: The Century Co. 1924. First edition. A near fine copy front hinge starting in a very good dust jacket shelfwear to edges minor loss to spine ends and corners spine age darkened with a damp stain. 10093. Octavo cloth. Travelogue of the author's visits to Asian countries. The Century Co. unknown
rif. 8128Historical Publishing Network. 2002 First Edition so stated Large 9" by 11 3/4" Near New/Near New SIGNED BY AUTHOR a new look at Denton County Texas history with information from many previously unpublished sources an excellent illustrated history ISBN 1-893619-07-9 112 pages Historical Publishing Network unknown
