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Lyle Justis. Fair in Fair jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Illustrated by Lyle Justis. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps with 2-inch chips taken from the spine; spine sun toned; edges torn and frayed; page edges dusty; previous owner's full-page gift inscription inside on first title page. Less common title with DJ. William Hervey Allen (1889-1949) was an American author who served as a Lieutenant in the 28th (keystone) Division, United States Army during the World War I and fought in the Aisne-Marne offensive July-August, 1918. He wrote "Toward the Flame", a nonfictional account of his experiences in the war. 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. 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.