THE STRANGER
by Chris Van Allsburg
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0395423317
- ISBN 13
- 9780395423318
- Seller
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Oblong 4to, unpaginated, blue cloth, black-out strips on endpapers, a bit bowed; dj a bit bumped.
The mysterious stranger (aren't they all) arrives. What does he have to do with the changing seasons?
The mysterious stranger (aren't they all) arrives. What does he have to do with the changing seasons?
Synopsis
The enigmatic origins of the stranger that Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the weather. Could he be Jack Frost?
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2020297
- Title
- THE STRANGER
- Author
- Chris Van Allsburg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- ISBN 10
- 0395423317
- ISBN 13
- 9780395423318
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- 9780395423317 van allsburg
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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