Title: DRAWN AND QUARTERED
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London
Publication Date: 1943
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Poor
Dust Jacket Condition: Poor
Edition: 1st
Title page, [2, one bllank], 100 printed pages. 100 full-page duotone cartoon illustrations with printed captions. Plain endpapers. 22 x 28.5 cm. Original brown cloth with blue lettering along spine & on upper cover. 2.5 cm portion torn & missing from the foot of the spine. Hinges split, corners bumped, cloth worn and slightly stained. Spine faded and worn. Original colour dustwrapper front and rear panels separated with the spine and inner flaps missing, & remaining portions slightly worn with some marginal closed tears and handling wear. The binding is now slightly loose. This is a first UK edition of the first anthology of drawings of the enormously popular Addams family series whose author died in 1988. Only a few of the cartoons feature the Addams Family, while others reflect the wartime conditions. During World War II, Addams served at the Signal Corps Photographic Center in New York, where he made animated training films for the U.S. Army. In late 1942, he met his first wife, Barbara Jean Day, who purportedly resembled his cartoon character Morticia Addams. The marriage ended eight years later, after Addams, who hated small children, refused to adopt one. She later married New Yorker colleague John Hersey, author of the book Hiroshima. Bookseller Inventory # 4444