With Original Addams Family Illustration

Addams, Charles

My Crowd

B/w cartoons throughout. 192 pp. 4to, New York: Simon and Schuster, [1970]. Second printing. Publisher’s color illustrated boards, very good, in chipped and toned dustjacket, with large portions of spine lacking.

With full-page pen and ink and watercolor illustration of Morticia, Gomez, Pugsley, and Wednesday Addams decorating a birthday cake, inscribed, “Happy Birthday Nathaniel, 1971” and signed “Chas Addams.” The recipient was the author Nathaniel Benchley, son of Robert and father to Peter. Addams designed the jacket to Benchley’s children’s book The Visitors (1965)

Item #249513       Price: $5,500.00