{"id":11655,"date":"2016-04-02T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=11655"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:09:29","slug":"featured-chris-van-allsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-chris-van-allsburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured: Chris van Allsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"first3words\">Chris van Allsburg is a Caldecott Medal award-winning author and illustrator, renowned for works such as <em>The Polar Express, Jumanji.<\/em> <\/span>The Garden of Abdul Gasazi was his first illustrated book. In this extraordinary, unusual, and unique picture book, Van Allsburg explores both the real and surreal worlds with incredible deftness.\u00a0In doing so, he has created exquisite and beautiful images that will continue to haunt readers long after they have left the enchanted garden of Abdul Gasazi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Description:<\/strong> Hard bound first printing with dust jacket. <span class=\"first3words\">INSCRIBED &amp; SIGNED BY CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG <\/span>and his wife, with a small drawing of a paw print below &#8220;To Bettina, Happy Birthday your friends Chris and Lisa [paw print] cecil&#8221;. The author&#8217;s first book and a Caldecott Honor Award winner. First Edition, First printing with number line running down to 1. Cloth boards show some minor shelf wear and soiling. Unclipped ($8.95) dust jacket shows sunning to spine edge and some minor wear, otherwise very good. &#8220;This is without question one of the best and most original picture books in years&#8221;.&#8211; New York Times Book Review.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 23534<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Garden of Abdul Gasazi<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Van Allsburg, Chri<\/em><strong>s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Publisher: <strong>Houghton Mifflin<\/strong><br \/>\nPublication Date: <strong>1979<\/strong><br \/>\nBinding: <strong>Hardbound<\/strong><br \/>\nBook Condition: <strong>Good<\/strong><br \/>\nDust Jacket Condition: <strong>Good<\/strong><br \/>\nSigned: <strong>Inscribed by Author<\/strong><br \/>\nEdition: <strong>First Edition<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris van Allsburg is a Caldecott Medal award-winning author and illustrator, renowned for works such as The Polar Express, Jumanji. The Garden of Abdul Gasazi was his first illustrated book. In this extraordinary, unusual, and unique picture book, Van Allsburg explores both the real and surreal worlds with incredible deftness.\u00a0In doing so, he has created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11655"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14910,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions\/14910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}