The New Yorker Album of Sports and Games.

First edition of The New Yorker Album of Sports and Games; inscribed by Charles Addams with an original drawing of Pugsley Addams

The New Yorker Album of Sports and Games.

ADDAMS, Charles. [Chas Addams].

Item Number: 127608

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958.

First edition of this compilation of over four hundred cartoons that original appeared in The New Yorker. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the creator of the Addams Family, Charles Addams on the front free endpaper, “For Dave Cooper with best wishes for Father’s Day Chas Addams 1978.” Addams has also added an original drawing of Pugsley Addams. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Design and layout by Carmina Peppe.

American artist and cartoonist Charles Addams was widely known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters, who became known as the Addams Family and have been the basis for spin-offs in several other forms of media. Addams's cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker, and he also created a syndicated single-panel comic, Out of This World, which ran 1955–1957. There are many collections of his work, including Drawn and Quartered (1942) and Monster Rally (1950), the latter with a foreword by John O'Hara. The University of Pennsylvania has a Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall on its campus at 36th and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia. There is a small sculpture of the Addams Family in front of the building.

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