Dean Abner, Signed (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Humor. Author signed inscription on the first endpaper. Covers sunned and worn, corners and spin ends bumped and frayed. Binding tight, pages tanned. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First printing. Signed; "To Eddie- just as a reminder- Affectionately, Abner Nov 11, 1952" (Ed Ellinger). Book and sudt jacket are VERY GOOD condition - some fading at edges of book cover nad some shipping and wearing on edges of jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Abner Dean (illustrator). First edition. First Edition. Inscribed and signed & dated by author Robert Warren on the front free end paper. A very good book in a good dust jacket. Jacket has wear and several small tears around the extremities. Show 3F. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Humor. First printing stated. Author signed inscription on the half title page. Covers rubbed, spine ends bumped and frayed. Interior clean and tight, pages toned. Dust jacket rubbed and worn, soil and small chips, tear on the spine fold, in mylar slip. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Signed. First Edition. First printing, stated. SIGNED by Abner Dean on title page. Dust jacket has slight tanning at edges, chipping along bottom edge and spine. Front of jacket is vibrant. Pages clean, NO foxing! Boards clean, binding tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Yellow with green flower pattern and green spine. Edges show light wear with a couple of small bumps. DJ shows rubbing with light wear, tiny tears at top edges and fading to spine and top part of jacket. INSCRIBED ON HALF TITLE PAGE: TO JOHN- THAT OLD JUNGLE FIGHTER - BEST WISHES, ABNER. Inscribed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. From the Harold Bell Wright Estate. Certificate of authenticity from the estate included. Water damage to covers. "To Marcia Kat - on her way to subdue Brazil - Fondly, Abner. (First wife of Norman Hall Wright) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Light blue papercovered boards with tan spine. Boards have tanning/fading at edges with light bum ping to corners. THIS IS INSCRIBED ON THE FFE: TO JACK - WHO CAN RIGHT HIS OWN INSCRIPTION - - AND WILL - JUNE 11='54 ABNER. DJ is rubbed with chips at corners and at top of front cover. Back jacket has tears at bottom edge. 115 pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Inscribed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good(-). Profusely illustrated in black and white. 121 pages, 8vo, decorative yellow boards with a green cloth spine, dust wrapper (worn). Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, (1956). First Edition. A very good copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. Inscribed on the half-title page: "To Barbara Kerr - toward editorial conspiracy - cordially, Abner Dean.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Small name inked over on the front fly, edges of the boards a little faded, a very good plus copy in very good dustwrapper with modest chips at the extremities. Inscribed by the author: "To Anne with good wishes Abner Dean." A book of cartoons about people at parties and the way they behave (or not) at them.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Minus. Abner Dean (illustrator). Stated Second Printing, 1947 (same year as the first printing). The New York Review of Books put out a new edition in 2016. I believe it's the only new edition of any of his books. This book is flat-signed by Abner Dean on the title page (see photo). There's only one other signed book for sale on the Internet. That book's a first, but lacks the jacket. It's selling for $150.00. As the condition, the front cover has a number of small spots off its top edge. There are also a few tiny dents at its bottom edge. The lettering on the spine is nicely bright. The spine ends are in solid shape, the bottom one has a slight bit of superficial rubbing. The rear cover looks very good. I don't see any rubbing on either the edges or the corners. The book is square and the spine is straight. The binding is very solid from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The front inside cover has a small area of light scuffing of the paper, also a small bit (the top corner) of what was affixed at one point to the front inside cover. If you would like a photo let me know. There's also a very light tan rectangular area on the blank front end paper, and just off the bottom edge of the front end paper there's a small tan area that goes across 2 1/4" and comes up 1/4 ". The same is the case for the blank rear end paper, 2 1/4 by 1/4. And again there is a very light tan rectangular area on the blank rear end paper. The rear inside cover does not have any scuffing, nothing was removed from there, and there are no attachments there. There is a tiny bit of surface paper just off the top edge that looks like it got pulled over from the facing end paper, very superficial, not much of anything. The front end paper and next page have a very thin vertical crease. The first few pages have a shallow indent coming up 1 1/4 inches from the bottom edge, looks like something pressed against the pages there, not terribly significant. Beginning with the second Preface page there is a small crease just off the top corner of eight consecutive pages, not coming anywhere near the print or cartoons. I also found a small number of bottom corners with a very light, vague crease. One page has a short crease off its outer edge. There is also an occasional crinkle here and there. The pages are very clean. I saw two facing pages with two tiny tan spots in the same place. I saw three pages with a speck-sized tan spot or two. That may be it for soiling. There are no markings in the book. The only attachment is that tiny bit of paper (1/2" by 1/2") which could be removed, maybe with a little more scuffing. The only writing is the author's signature. The dust jacket has a large amount of creasing and crinkling, also a thin tear off its front top edge, and there is a 1 1/4" tear at the juncture between the rear cover and rear flap. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, but all four corners have clips. The flaps are clean, but also have some creasing and crinkling. The jacket fitted with a protective cover. 'Abner Dean was an American cartoonist. His artwork prompted Clifton Fadiman to comment, 'His pictures are trick mirrors in which we catch sight of those absurd fragments of ourselves that we never see in the smooth glass of habit.' The nephew of sculptor Jacob Epstein, Dean graduated from Dartmouth College in 1931, and studied at the National Academy of Design. He worked as a commercial illustrator, contributing to The New Yorker, Esquire, and other publications. His work for Life included illustrations of George Orwell's 1984 for a Life article on Orwell. His more personal work portrayed most often unclothed people in a variety of absurdist situations, reflecting the themes of disillusionment, self-delusion, yearning and the meaninglessness of modern life, a dark vision atypical of cartoon work of his time. He has begun to accumulate a posthumous cult following of admirers.'. Inscribed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Dust Jacket Condition: very good(-). First Edition. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 121 pages, 8vo, green and yellow cloth-backed decorative boards, dust wrapper (worn) in a mylar sleeve. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, (1956). First Edition. A very good(+) copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. Inscribed on the half-title page: "To Rafe It's safe To say, 'Just read it' -- But Dorshka'll Never Ever Need It. However -- with love -- Abner.".

hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Abner Dean (illustrator). First. Profusely illustrated with black and white cartoons. 111 pages. Slim 4to, yellow cloth-backed boards, tattered dust wrapper. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1949). First edition. A very good copy in a good dust wrapper. Dean's third book, inscribed on the front endpaper along with an original drawing: "To Barbara and Herbert on an elaborate evening, Abner Dean.".

First Edition. THE THIRD NEW YEAR -AN ETUDE IN THE KEY OF FRANKNESS, Esquire, 1935, first edition, some flaking to the spine extremities, else a tight vg+ copy or better in the publishers full leather binding with gold-gilt ruling, raised spine and all gold-gilt edges. First book appearances by Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Aiken Dehan, Carleton Smith, Albert Treynor, Harry Ashe & Paul Kearney with tipped-in full color plates by Abner Dean and other Esquire artists. 1/500 copies SIGNED by editor Gingrich.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Introduction by Philip Wylie. Inscribed and with an original drawing inside the front board by Dean. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.50), rubbed at the folds, a few shallow chips and short tears at the edges. Red cloth, faded at the edges, with blue ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Dean's first collection of illustrations, seven of which were previously published in Life, that display Dean's "gift for the homicidal lampoon and a genius for the unexpected.". Signed.

Condition: Fine in VG Slipcase. 1st edition. A selecton of drawings from four of the artist's books: It's a Long Way to Heaven, Whst Am I Doing Here?, And On The Eighth Day, Cave Drawijgs for the Future. Wonderful collection of this artist's wry comic commentaries on humanity and its foibles and punishments. This book includes unbound copy of one of 1000 b/w lithographs signed by the artist, this being #386. Slipcase is 1-/4 x 9 x 11. Book is 8-3/4 x 11, 207 pp, one b/w lithograph per page. Oblong Hardback in black/navy boards, in.