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The Stranger
by VAN ALLSBURG, Chris
- Used
- Fine
- first
- Condition
- Fine/very good +
- Seller
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Thomaston, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good +. [SIGNED]. First edition, second printing. 8vo oblong (9 3/8" x 11"); [28]pp; navy cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering and leaf design on front; orange endpapers, author inscribed and signed on ffep "For all the Langs 1987" with a small drawing of a dog head; 14 full-page color illustrations; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, light shelf and edge wear; binding tight and unread; fine in very good plus dust jacket. From the author of Jumanji and The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg, weaves a story of a stranger that comes into the life of a farm family. The front flyleaf reads "Chris Van Allsburg again explores that fine line between reality and fantasy. His evocative full-color artwork catches every nuance of the mysterious stranger as he blows on a leaf until it slowly turns from green to a golden red. Here is a new perspective on the changing seasons as seen through the eyes of the master storyteller...
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
- Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1659
- Title
- The Stranger
- Author
- VAN ALLSBURG, Chris
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Holiday, Christmas, Children, Children's book
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
Thomaston, Maine
About Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
We sell antiquarian, collectible, out-of-print, and rare, books, maps, prints and interesting ephemera by internet and show.
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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