First printing of Van Allsburg's most chaotic book, and winner of the Caldecott Medal.
"Quick,' said Judy. 'Back to the game."
The story of two children playing a game with very high stakes indeed, adapted into a popular film that launched a subsequent movie and television franchises. Here Van Allsburg captures the slumbering menace of household spaces in eerie tones of grey.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. 9.75'' x 11''. Original green cloth lettered in bronze. In original unclipped ($9.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Tan endpapers. Illustrated with full-page black-and-white images facing each page of text. [32] pages. Some foxing to first couple leaves and text block edges. Cloth with very faint shadows of tape, now removed. (Apparently married) jacket beautiful, with only trace edgewear.