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NOT FAR FROM THE JUNGLE; By Abner Dean
by Dean, Abner
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland New York: The World Publishing Company, 1956. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. Abner Dean. 8vo, green quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over gold boards with leaf motifs, filled with amusing satiric poems and light-hearted cartoons by Abner, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped), endpapers repeat leaf motif, 121 pages. Abner Dean (1910 - 1982), born Abner Epstein in New York City, was a commercial artist and 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."<br/><br/>SUPERIOR CONDITION: tight, bright, clean copy in a bright dust jacket with light soil (mainly on its back pane). Book is filled with amusing jingles/doggerel with Thurberesque cartoons.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6296
- Title
- NOT FAR FROM THE JUNGLE; By Abner Dean
- Author
- Dean, Abner
- Illustrator
- Abner Dean
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- Illustrated, cartoon, humor, Thurber,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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