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Anthony Adverse 1st ed. 1933 -- author's own copy
1933ref. h46346NY: New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket book good with some light soil to covers and spine top inch of spine with some uneven loss of color and whitening associated with dampstain contents good with bookplate of University of Pittsburgh's Hervey Allen Collection and their deaccession stamp both on pastedown and hidden by jacket flap; jacket good with light general soil stains shallow chipping and short tears along top edges. Signed "Hervey Allen His book. 1st edition first printing author's copy presented by Stanley D. Rinehart to the author. Notice: Not to be loaned or taken from the house." 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. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover
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