Black Maria A New Cartoon Collection Addams, Charles

B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized hardback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends, and the spine has some light toning / fading, especially to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has edge wear, rubbing, small bumps and several small chips missing, along with several edge tears. " Charles Addams joined the layout department of True Detective magazine in 1933, where he retouched photos of corpses to remove the blood for appearance alongside magazine stories. Addams complained: "A lot of those corpses were more interesting the way they were." His first drawing for The New Yorker, a sketch of a window washer, ran February 6, 1932, and his cartoons ran regularly in the magazine from 1937, when he drew the first in the series that came to be called The Addams Family, until his death. Addams remained a freelancer throughout that time. " (from Wikipedia)