The Admiral (Signed) Dibner, Martin Literature

8vo. A lovely signed association 1st Edition copy inscribed and signed by Dibner to Wye Mills area friends of his from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Half grey and blue cloth. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Little wear to binding. Dust jacket with the mildest of edge wear. Presents handsomely in archival mylar. Dibner's Navy experience during World War II provided the plot and characters for several of his novels. After the war, he did graduate work in painting and sculpture at Rollins College in Florida. He was awarded a Breadloaf Fellowship in 1960. Two years later he was a Huntington Hartford Foundation fellow. In the late 1960s, Dibner was appointed the first director of the California Art Commission. In the early 1970s he moved to Maine where he had vacationed for many years. When Westbrook College's Joan Whitney Payson Gallery opened in 1977, Dibner was hired as its first director. Dibner entered a new phase of his creative career when he became a mentor and teacher to many Maine short story and novel writers who studied creative writing with him. The Maine Community Foundation honors and memorializes Dibner's commitment to emerging talent in its annual Martin Dibner Fellowships. A superior edition with fantastic Eastern Shore of Maryland provenance.