[VAN ALLSBURG, Chris (b. 1949)] – A group of 11 works in 11 volumes illustrated and most written by VAN ALLSBURG, comprising:

The Polar Express. 1985. FIRST EDITION, later issue with Caldecott medal on cover. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG. –The Z Was Zapped: A Play in Twenty-Six Acts. 1987. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG. –Two Bad Ants. 1988. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG laid in. –The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. 1979. –Just a Dream. 1990. –The Wretched Stone. 1991 –The Widow’s Broom. 1992. “A Special Preview of The Widow’s Broom” Laid in. --Probuditi! 2006.

[With:] A group of 3 works in 3 volumes written by Mark HELPRIN (b. 1947), illustrated by VAN ALLSBURG, and published in [New York] by Ariel-Viking, comprising: Swan Lake. 1989. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG. –A City in Winter. [1996]. –The Veil of Snows. [1997].

Together, 11 works in 11 volumes, all published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin Company (except where noted), 4to and 8vo, illustrated, all in Publisher’s cloth stamped in silver, gold, black, bronze and/or blind-stamped, all except one volume in ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine.

Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence Blitch