ALLEN, HerveyBiblio.com
Allen, HerveyBiblio.com
Toward the Flame inscribed to Mrs. Van R. Whitall
1926réf. 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
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