Drawn and Quartered: The Return of a Classic
- Hardcover
- New York: Simon and Schuster, Publishers, 1970
New York: Simon and Schuster, Publishers, 1970. Reissue. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 112pp. Quarto [29 cm] 1/4 purple cloth with white paper over boards. Subtle toning to the head and foot of the boards. Gentle bumping to corners of covers. Previous owner's ink stamp on the pastedowns and title page. In a rough dust jacket, with a number of closed and open edge tears, and a loss from the top edge of the rear panel. The first anthology of Addams' drawings of The Addams Family, with 115 early masterpieces.
Charles Addams (1912-1988) became world famous for his New Yorker cartoons. He was inducted into the Society of Illustrator's Hall of Fame in November 2022.
"After they appeared on a TV sitcom that ran from 1964 to 1966, The Addams Family, as they came to be known, enjoyed an afterlife in syndication, as well as books, animated series, live-action films, a Broadway musical, a pinball machine, video games and ads hawking everything from M&Ms to home insurance." (NPR.org).
Charles Addams (1912-1988) became world famous for his New Yorker cartoons. He was inducted into the Society of Illustrator's Hall of Fame in November 2022.
"After they appeared on a TV sitcom that ran from 1964 to 1966, The Addams Family, as they came to be known, enjoyed an afterlife in syndication, as well as books, animated series, live-action films, a Broadway musical, a pinball machine, video games and ads hawking everything from M&Ms to home insurance." (NPR.org).