FABRÉS, OSCAR, author and illustrator. Autograph calligraphic manuscript signed, incorporating full-page pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations, of a humorous autobiographical book entitled "Little Oscar Comes to New York," New York, 1940 [published 1940]. 4to, 28 loose sheets of heavy art stock comprising cover, flyleaf with presentation inscription ("the original copy for the original Monty," dated 1943), copyright page, half-title and 22 full-page illustrations with captions, all on rectos only, enclosed in yellow morocco slipcase. Bookplate of Montgomery Evans. [With:] Autograph letter signed to Montgomery Evans, Amsterdam, 21 December 1939, 4 pages, 8vo, with envelope, in French; two small sketches by Fabrés, each 3 x 5 in.

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FABRÉS, OSCAR, author and illustrator. Autograph calligraphic manuscript signed, incorporating full-page pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations, of a humorous autobiographical book entitled "Little Oscar Comes to New York," New York, 1940 [published 1940]. 4to, 28 loose sheets of heavy art stock comprising cover, flyleaf with presentation inscription ("the original copy for the original Monty," dated 1943), copyright page, half-title and 22 full-page illustrations with captions, all on rectos only, enclosed in yellow morocco slipcase. Bookplate of Montgomery Evans. [With:] Autograph letter signed to Montgomery Evans, Amsterdam, 21 December 1939, 4 pages, 8vo, with envelope, in French; two small sketches by Fabrés, each 3 x 5 in.

Fabrés fled Amsterdam on the eve of World War II at the invitation of Montgomery Evans; settling in New York, he became a popular cartoonist for such magazines as The New Yorker.