HOMEBODIES CHARLES ADDAMS 1954 1ST PRINTING HB W/DJ

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UP FOR AUCTION IS CHARLES ADDAMS HOMEBODIES THIS IS THE 1954 1ST PRINTING EDITION By Simon & Schuster Hardback with dustjacket Very funny and wonderfully drawn illustrations. The book itself is in good condition, no yellowing of pages, spine is it tight, pages are clean, no rips, or marks. At the bottom of the outside of the hardcover on edge under the publishers name Schuster there is wear and a small piece of the cloth missing, less than a 1/4 of a inch. The dustjacket does have issues it has a piece ripped off where the publishers name on the edge bottom would have been and there are minor tears around it. Addams was a mild mannered man with a wicked but gentle mind. The following is from the 1954 dj notes on Homebodies : "Charles Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey, forty-one years ago and attended Colgate University, The University of Pennsylvania, and Grand Central School of Art in New York City.His work, almost in its entirety, has been published in The New Yorker for the last twenty-two years and has resulted in three previous books: Drawn and Quartered , Addams and Evil , and Monster Rally . He works mostly in New York City in what looks like an unsuccessful private eye's office. Practically nothing is accomplished in his house at Westhampton Beach on Long Island. He has owned a series of sports cars and collects read more

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