New Yorker office manager Daise Terry's advocacy for the young
Charles Addams is documented in Ben Yagoda's
About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made (2000). This year her copy of
Addams and Evil (1947) with a full page original watercolor of the Addams Family's Lurch as Santa Claus was auctioned by PBA Galleries for $1,200. John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller subsequently sold it at a tidy profit for $3,750. The watercolor shows Lurch in Santa's garb holding almost the identical pose he has on the book's dust jacket. One assumes that this is as jolly as he gets.
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Yagoda, Ben. About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made, Simon and Schuster, 2000, p. 119.
About Town by Ben Yagoda |
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| Charles Addams, Lurch as Santa Claus, inscribed "New York/1947/For Daise Terry/Merry Christmas/Chas Addams" in Addams, Charles. Addams and Evil, New York: Random House, 1947 |
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PBA Galleries June 25, 2015
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John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller Listing
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John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller Listing
Sold
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Note: Charles Addams, got him covered.
Books with original drawings, got them covered.
Christmas, got it covered.
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