Monster Rally: Signed (3 results)

Hard cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Third edition. 11 1/4'' x 8 3/4''. 91pp. Spine of book worn. Dust jacket worn, with chips. Signed and dated by Addams. Charles Addams. (illustrator). Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Special Edition. An original ink and wash illustration of Pugsley and Wednesday Addams [executed in: "Monster Rally". New York: Simon and Schuster, ca. 1975]. 4to. Original pictorial wrappers. Provenance: Jerry Granat (ownership signature with home address inside rear cover and the notation "P. 83" on the inside front cover in his hand); see included correspondence between Granat and Addams. Later edition, first published in 1950. WITH AN ORIGINAL INK AND WASH ILLUSTRATION of a barechested Pugsley showing off his muscles to Wednesday on p. 83, signed by the artist ("Chas Addams") in the lower margin. Rare book with original Addams artwork. Inscribed by Illustrator.…

First edition of this early Addams work. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Gert and Dave with all best Chas Addams 1978." In near fine condition. Rare signed. 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 1955â"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.…