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Sunday, April 16, 2023

Charles Addams: In the Library's Stacks

How many photographs does it take to sell an original New Yorker cartoon by the great Charles Addams? Two? Four? An eBay seller goes all in with twenty-four.

Charles Addams
Original art
The New Yorker, July 10, 1971, p. 21
Favorite Haunts (1976), p. 50

Charles Addams's signature

Ding

Charles Addams
eBay listing ended March 10, 2023

https://www.ebay.com/itm/115727486985?hash=item1af1e55009:g:DykAAOSwb0ZkCqxQ&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAABALwp4S6KkexxBRpgtmjDDmnolTbgo3hIT8iODt2aA9WSG9o5JAc8r5LfebvjNBDh9B5NRQtkJQwMcjfsZIap63VGarlehkmpcXU7e%2FskIOKRpmzQA8U%2FC7d27mqTyc6cFfGv5YFBPwN%2Be%2FOjjyK3XeGD0L65cZ8QlSDMONqf

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Charles Addams
eBay item description

The buyer offered $4,200. Seller countered with $5,400.
Buyer countered with $4,800. Seller countered with $5,000.
Accepted.

Three recent sales of original New Yorker cartoon art by Charles Addams from eBay

Charles Addams
Original art
The New Yorker, July 10, 1971, p. 21
Favorite Haunts (1976), p. 50

A spot drawing by Henry Martin and a cartoon by Charles Addams

https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1971-07-10/flipbook/020/

Favorite Haunts (1976, W. H. Allen British edition 1977), pp. 50-51

Spot drawing
Henry Martin

Note: Another great New Yorker cartoonist, Edward Koren (1935-2023), passed away on Friday morning. Posts on Attempted Bloggery about his work may be seen here.

Happily, Charles Addams was quite prolific. Images of his original cartoon art, souvenir drawings, and published rarities would very likely make for fine future blog posts. There is no need to send twenty-four photos. Just saying.

Readers who have purchased New Yorker-related art through the eBay Make Offer option are encouraged to inform this blogger of the full details of negotiation. The public wants to know!

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Saturday, February 18, 2023

Jane Glickman's Copy of Favorite Haunts by Charles Addams

With all the souvenir drawings cartoonist Charles Addams has left for his many admirers to enjoy, it wasn't until yesterday, at least on this blog, that we saw him place Wednesday and Pugsley Addams together. Today we see Addams Family sister and brother sharing the page again, and from the very same February 16 sale at Potter & Potter Auctions, Inc., of Chicago. The 1977 drawing made for, we are informed, one Jane Glickman in her copy of Favorite Haunts (1976) shows a rather hefty Pugsley holding Wednesday, seated, on his shoulder. In addition, Addams has to contend with a bit of smudged ink, for which he improvises a creature called a blot.

With a presale estimate of $1,000 to $1,500, the book sold for an impressive $2,200, not including of course the $550 buyer's premium, tax, and shipping. It isn't only Pugsley who chooses to do some heavy lifting.

Charles Addams
Potter & Potter Auctions, Inc., February 16, 2023

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/addams-charles-1912-1988-an-original-ink-and-wash-129-c-9e549ffb72?objectID=176871505&algIndex=undefined&queryID=df917409dca3d06f78fb867d0b6427ef

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Fleur's Copy of Favorite Haunts by Charles Addams

In the year of its publication, Charles Addams presented his friend Fleur with a personalized copy of Favorite Haunts (1976). The similarity between Addams and Uncle Fester is implicit in the drawing here. The dog is Fleur's greyhound, it would seem.