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Frederick Lewis Allen-"Only Yesterday An Informal History Of The Nineteen-Twenties"-1931-Harper & Bros-5 1/2" X 8 1/2"-370 pages-hardcover book-with jacket-with photos-Signed By Author.Allen, Frederick Lewis, 1890–1954, American social historian and editor, b. Boston, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1912; M.A., 1913). He is best remembered for his journalistic but nonetheless penetrating works of social history, including Only Yesterday (1932), Since Yesterday (1940), and The Big Change (1952). After teaching English at Harvard, he was an assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly (1914–16), then managing editor of The Century (1916–17). In 1923 he began working for Harper's Magazine, where he remained until 1953, becoming chief editor in 1941.The book has been autographed on the title page by Frederick Lewis Allen with a fountain pen in blue................BOTH BOOK AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.JACKET HAS WEAR.................