Autograph Signature of British Author Walter Allen
1939
by ALLEN, WALTER
1939. Original autograph signature of British novelist and literary critic, Walter Allen, inscribed to British autograph collector, L.E.L. Downing, written in vintage fountain pen ink on a 4” x 3” piece of paper. Inscribed: “Signed for L.E.L. Downing, by Walter Allen, 15/6/39.” Fine. Walter Allen’s published works include the novels Innocence is Drowned, Blind Man’s Ditch, Living Space, The Black Country, Rogue Elephant , and Dead Man Over All, critial works on Arnold Bennett, Joyce Cary, and George Eliot, an autobiography, As I Walked Down New Grub Street, and his best known work, The English Novel: a Short Critical History. (Inventory #: 16812E)