The Stranger

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...