Garden Abdul Gasazi by Allsburg Chris, Signed (15 results)

Hardcover. Van Allsburg, Chris (illustrator). Thin, Oblong Quarto; unpanginated; VG-/G; dark green spine with ivory text; dust jacket has some smudges to exterior; few chips to edges; price clipped front flap; Caldecott Honor Book award, 1979, sticker to front; cloth has light wear to exterior; strong boards; text block has minimal wear to edges; frontispiece; interior clean; illustrated; inscribed by author; NOTE: Shelved in Room X, Case #5.1. 1329255. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Van Allsburg, Chris (illustrator). Clean, bright, crisp and tight. Signed and inscribed by Van Allsburg on the half-title page with a sketch of a duck smoking a cigar. Price clipped. Sixth printing.Jacket has wear to points and spine ends with one small tear to the upper rear. Looks nice in new mylar. Summary: What does actually happen when a boy and a dog are in a magician's garden?. Signed. Children's Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Van Allsburg, Chris (illustrator). Illustrated by the author. The author's first book. Caldecott Honor Book. Eleventh printing. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with the Caldecott Medal emblem on the front panel. ; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Later printing. Thin landscape octavo (standard size) Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so to dust jacket which has a closed reat at top ege and a slightly faded spine. SIGNED "To Tracy" with van Allsburg's signture and a picture of a dog saying "woof". A Caldecott Honor Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. SIGNED FIRST PRINTING, SPECIAL TEACHER'S EDITION. SEE SCAN OF FRONT AND BACK COVER, No DJ as issued. See scan of front and back cover. Book has wear on tips of all corners; library stamps on first title page; library pocket removal scar on back endpaper; light wrinkling on some pages. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Van Allsburg, Chris (illustrator). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. Fourth Printing. Slim oblong quarto; publisher's beige cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($8.95); 31pp.; illustrations throughout. Light shelf wear, dust jacket a bit sunned along margins, front board very slightly bowed. Production flaw to interior of front board (small mound trapped under front pastedown and faint impression opposite). Very Good and sound overall. Inscribed and signed by the author/illustrator on half title accompanied by an original illustration of a rabbit smoking a cigar. Caldecott Honor Book by the author of Jumanji, jauntily enhanced with an original illustration.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Van Allsburg, Chris (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Oblong cream cloth. With the complete number line to the copyright page and date on the title. Signed by Van Allsburg on the title page. Not inscribed. Bumps to the upper corners, very minor bump to the lower spine. All else is nearly fine. The dust jacket has fading along the length of the spine. There are a couple of tears to the lower edge, near the spine. One is about 1 1/2" to the rear and 1" to the front. They are each repaired with clear tape to the reverse or verso. There are also associated creases to the lower spine and along the lower, front panel edge. One other repaired tear of 3/8" to the lower, front edge and also with some creasing. Original price of $8.95 to the front flap. There is no Caldecott Medal to the front. ; Oblong Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; Signed by Author.

Van Allsburg, Chris (illustrator). First edition. First printing of Van Allsburg's first book, with two tipped-in bookplates inscribed by him the story of a boy's search for his dog in a mysterious and eerie garden. Chris Van Allsburg's rich illustrations are easy to get lost in. He began his career as a sculptor, graduating with an MFA from RISD; his wife Lisa and illustrator David Macaulay urged him to try his hand at children's book illustration in 1979, and a Caldecott Honor, National Book Award, and numerous other accolades later, his books are a beloved part of many childhood (and adult) shelves. THE GARDEN OF ABDUL GASAZI earned him his first award, a Caldecott Honor. 9.5'' x 11.5''. Original cream cloth, blind-stamped central vignette, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($8.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Navy endpapers. Illustrated by Van Allsburg with full-page black-and-white plates. [32] pages. Two bookplates inscribed by Van Allsburg tipped onto front flyleaf and rear pastedown. Jacket with mild soil, a bit of bumping to spine ends; light sunning to spine. Binding spine and corners a touch darkened. Interior clean and fresh. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. Inscribed by author on half title page. (Dogs, Magicians, Juvenile Fiction).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Inscribed by illustrator/author. Overall VG. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Van Allsburg (illustrator). First Printing. Oblong quarto, white cloth; price sticker on the front dj flap from the Museum of Modern Art "$10.95"; slightest wear at heel of dj spine. Author / Illustrator's first book. Caldecott Honor Book, ALA Notable Book. Signed by Van Allsburg on a Metropolitan Museum of Art Children's Bookshop sticker attached to the front endpaper. Laid in is a Houghton Mifflin Company Christmas Card with a Van Allsberg illustration from this book on the card. Note: No Caldecott gilt sticker on dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. SIGNED. Oblong quarto [25 cm x 31 cm] Natural white cloth over boards, with a gilt stamped title on the spine and an embossed tree vignette on the front cover. Gently bumped at the head of the spine. In a dust jacket with a 1/2" closed tear in the top edge of the front panel, and an abraded area on the rear inside flap, measuring just under 2" tall by 1" wide, and obscuring some of the text. A Caldecott Honor Book. Signed by Chris Van Allsburg on the half title page. Van Allsburg has been the recipient of numerous awards, including two Caldecott Medals for The Polar Express and Jumanji.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VERY SCARCE SIGNED COPY of this first picture book of Van Allsburg which won a CALDECOTT HONOR. BOOK shows light wear on edges. DJ unclipped ($8.95); in mylar; several short tears on top edge with light wrinkling of top and bottom corners; one inch tear on right lower front near corner. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Both book and dust jacket are in near fine condition with some fading/toning on the spine. Price shows $8.95. Jacket is in a new protective Brodart cover. Spine is tight. Pages are clean and crisp. Signed by Chris Van Allsburg on the title page. No other writing inside. Last text page has a corner crease. Please email for more photos. A beautiful copy of Van Allsburg's first picture book, showing the themes of mystery and the unusual that will become his hallmark. Great collectible condition. Signed by Author(s).

HARDCOVER. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY THE AUTHOR / AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK BOTH WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY HIM BOOK HAS SOME MODERATE TONING TO THE TAN CLOTH BUT IS OTHERWISE FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS LIGHT RUB/WORN AT THE CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS WITH A TINY BIT OF LOSS AT THE TOP SPINE FORE-EDGE CORNER, A FEW SHORT EDGE TEARS, MODEST TONING/SOILING TO THE LIGHT AREAS OF THE FRONT PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. VERY GOOD+ IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J.