Chris Van Allsburg – Jumanji – First Edition 1981
£385.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Jumanji’ published by Houghton Mifflin in 1981. Full green cloth, titling in copper-gold. First state jacket (date on title page, number string down to 1, $9.95 price on flap, no Caldecott seal). Light wear to book, minor cockling to endsheets from no obvious source; jacket has two tears to the front panel with associated creases. Text clean; [32] pages, nearly every other one an exquisitely rendered Conté pencil-and-dust illustration.
Children’s fantasy of a challenging board game, basis of several movies; Van Allsburg’s second book and first to win the Caldecott Medal, in 1982.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Jumanji’ published by Houghton Mifflin in 1981. Full green cloth, titling in copper-gold. First state jacket (date on title page, number string down to 1, $9.95 price on flap, no Caldecott seal). Light wear to book, minor cockling to endsheets from no obvious source; jacket has two tears to the front panel with associated creases. Text clean; [32] pages, nearly every other one an exquisitely rendered Conté pencil-and-dust illustration.
Children’s fantasy of a challenging board game, basis of several movies; Van Allsburg’s second book and first to win the Caldecott Medal, in 1982.
