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ALLEN, Hervey [ William Hervey Allen 1889-1949] / PRIESTLEY, J B (Signed) .:Biblio.com

New Legends . Poems By Hervey Allen .

réf. 43559New York : Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated On Murray Hill MCMXXIX 1929 . Signed first edition. 19.5cm x 5.25" x 2.0cm 7.75" x 5.25" x 0.75". pp.13/pp.168 . Original black cloth covered boards edges lightly rubbed. with bright gilt titles to front board. Spine titles faded. Bookplate to verso of the front board: "from the library of J. B. Priestley". Neat ink inscription to front endpaper: "J. B. Priestley Esq. with the cordial regards of Henry Allen". Clean throughout. A very good book with an interesting provenance. "William Hervey Allen Jr. December 8 1889 � December 28 1949 was an American poet biographer and novelist. His poetry heralded the birth of the "lost generation" of the 1920s. Allen was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He graduated from Shady Side Academy in 1909 and from the University of Pittsburgh in 1915 where he also became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He served as a Lieutenant in the 28th keystone Division United States Army during World War I and fought in the Aisne-Marne offensive July�August 1918. He wrote Toward the Flame 1926 a nonfictional account of his experiences in the war. His first book Wampum and Old Gold was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Allen is best known for his work Anthony Adverse. He also planned a series of novels about colonial America called The Disinherited. He completed three works in the series: The Forest and the Fort 1943 Bedford Village 1944 and Toward the Morning 1948. The novels tell the story of Salathiel Albine a frontiersman kidnapped as a boy by Shawnee Indians in the 1750s. All three works were collected and published as the City in the Dawn. Allen also wrote Israfel 1926 a biography of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. For a period of time Allen taught at the Porter Military Academy in Charleston South Carolina. He also taught English at Charleston High School which at that time although public was only for boys. The girls went to Memminger. There he met and befriended DuBose Heyward. He later was a professor at Vassar University where he met his wife Ann "Annette" Andrews. They had three children Marcia Mary Ann and Richard. In the 1940s he co-edited the Rivers of America Series with Carl Carmer. Allen was a good friend of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and instigated her writing The Everglades: River of Grass. Allen was close friends with Robert Frost and Ogden Nash.Allen died at his home called the Glades in Coconut Grove Florida aged 60 from a heart attack and was found by his wife Annette." - See Wikipedia. New York : Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, On Murray Hill, MCMXXIX [ 1929 ] . hardcover

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Hervey, James [Rev James Hervey]Biblio.com

Mediations and Contemplations to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author Volumes I & II

1803réf. 036256London UK: Printed for F & C Rivington and others 1803. Hardcover. Good/N/A. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. None. Complete in two volumes volume one containing Mediations Among the Tombs; Reflections on a Flower Garden; and a Descant on Creation and volume two containing Contemplations on the Night; Contemplations on the Starry Heavens and A Winter Piece. lxviii 284pp; viii 312pp two engraved frontispieces two engraved title pages and nine further engraved plates across both volumes. Bound in contemporary tree calf with gilt border decorations black leather spine labels with gilt-stamped titles. All edges sprayed red. Marbled endpapers surrounded by gilt dentelles. 8vos. Boards are rubbed and scuffed especially on edges and joint with some minor leather loss at spine ends rubbed right through on corners. Rear panel of volume to slightly loosened. Ex lending library volumes with bookplate and barcode on front endpapers leading sheet and pocket on rear endpapers minor annotations and small stamp on copyright pages no other library markings. Previous owner's Charlotte Scott name stamped on page one of both volumes. There's some spotting and foxing on the first and last few leaves of both volumes and a little spotting on the rear of some of the plates else generally internally neat and clean. James Hervey 1714-1758 was an English writer and clergyman. Although influenced by Wesley and the Oxford Methodists he remained a committed Calvinist. Mediations and Contemplations was his first published work first appearing in 1746 with many further editions appearing in his lifetime. Said to be modelled on Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflections on Various Subjects 1665 but Hervey's style is more bombastic and revealing of both simple piety and a genuine appreciation of natural beauty. Printed for F & C Rivington [and others] hardcover

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