About this title: Are those birds on the wallpaper really flying out the window? How did the ocean liner get onto city streets? Make up your own story from the 14 thought-provoking pictures of impossible situations--or just look at them and wonder.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Illustrated. Very Good + in Good jacket. 11x9.25 inches. Black, black and white drawing illustrated dust jacket with orange lettering. Black dust jacket spine with orange lettering. Dust jacket edges worn. Large pull tear on back of dust jacket, price-clipped, stains (visible inside). Even the most reluctant imagination, when confronted by these drawings, will not be able to resist solving the mysteries of Harris Burdick. Full page black and white drawings. read more
Binding: Reinforced
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1984-09-24
ISBN-13:9780395353936ISBN:0395353939
Description: NEW. Reinforced. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780395353936. read more
Edition: Portfolio Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780395827840ISBN:0395827841
Description: Fine as new softcover (still in shrinkwrap). Folio size (12" x 16"). Illustrated with the original 14 drawings from The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780395353936ISBN:0395353939
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1996-10-28
ISBN-13:9780395827840ISBN:0395827841
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780395827840. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin,, Boston:
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780395827840ISBN:0395827841
Description: As New. 0395827841. Illustrated by the author. Fifteen large black and white loose plates in an illustrated folder. First edition thus (paperback). As new. Still in original shrinkwrap. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780395827840ISBN:0395827841
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1984-09-24
ISBN-13:9780395353936ISBN:0395353939
Description: Good. First edition hardback with dust jacket and full number line. The number line is 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Book in good condition, but is library discard, and does have the normal library stuff in it. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1996-10-28
ISBN-13:9780395827840ISBN:0395827841
Description: Very Good. 1984, Houghton Mifflin, 1st edition, 13th printing, illustrated Hardback with dustjacket. Some wear to DJ with edge wear, sm DJ edge tear, sm. area of wear to back DJ where store sticker removed, DJ price clipped else book, inner pages pristine, Beautiful full page B&W drawings. read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780395353936ISBN:0395353939
Description: Very Good Overall in Very Good Overall jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Signed by Author Unpaginated, illustrated. Signed by Van Allsburg to previous owners at title page. Text clean. Boards with modest bowing. Binding sound. Dust Jacket rubbed, modest edgewear, a couple of small nicks. Oversized. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780395353936ISBN:0395353939
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. Small Folio-9" x 11" Signed. [CH]. Later printing. Hardcover, bound in black cloth with dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title-page. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston
Date Published: 1984
Description: Chris Van Allsburg. Fine in Very Good Dustjacket (unclipped) 4to; salmon cloth w/gilt lettering; black endpapers; b&w illustrations; unpaginated. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780395353936ISBN:0395353939
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Original red cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding very bright and clean. Spine ends a bit bumped. DJ has modest edge wear. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents very nice. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780395353936ISBN:0395353939
Description: Van Allsburg, Chris. Fine in Fine jacket. The most enigmatic and evocative of Van Allsburg's superb books. A fresh as-new copy, jacket with price intact, in Brodart wrapper. Superb. read more
Edition: First printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780395353936ISBN:0395353939
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket. 4to. First edition. Book and jacket are as new; a perfect copy. Not price-clipped. In protective mylar. Unpaginated. read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1984
Description: First edition. Quarto. Fine in a price-clipped, very near fine dustwrapper with a single short tear and some negligible wear at the crown. A marvelous and haunting collection of pictures with one line captions from which you are to invent the story (as Stephen King did for one of the pictures, "The House on Maple Street, " in his collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes). read more
"Imágenes inconexas, cada una con un título y una frase, para que en tu mente brote un cuento completo y desaparezca a los pocos segundos. La que se titula "Archie Smith, Boy Wonder" me altera y me emociona cada vez que la veo. Sí, Van Allsburg es el mismo de Jumanji y Zathura."
"The first time I was introduced to this book was when I was in 5th grade. My language arts teacher used it to give us writing prompts. I have since used it in my classroom as a writing assignment for my own students, although it was a little more challenging for them since they were 2nd graders. Some of them did come up with very creative stories though. The book has different pictures and a beginning for each picture. This offers a great assignment to students, if you are a teacher, giving them a chance to write a story that already has a beginning and a picture to go with it."
"This is ostensibly a children's book, but I find it fascinating as well. It is a series of pictures with an accompanying title and first sentence. The mythology is that a man named Harris Burdick gave the pictures to Van Allsburg as pitches for stories he had written. He left, promising to come back the next day with the full stories, and then never returned. (I personally think it is all made up, but who cares?)
One of my favorite is The Seven Chairs which has a picture of a nun floating in a chair 20 feet above the ground in a cathedral, accompanied by the first line "The fifth one ended up in France."
A fantastic book, not only in general, but also as a device for stimulating writing projects for Elementary and Jr. High kids."
"Chris Van Allsburg might be my favorite combination author/illustrator. Is it really fair for one person to have both those talents in such extraordinary form? All his gorgeous picture books center around using ones imagination, this one perhaps most of all. The premise is so clever and simple and just the teensiest bit creepy: what the reader allegedly holds in his or her hands are the only remnants of fourteen stories written by a Mr. Harris Burdick, who disappeared leaving behind just the titles of his stories and a captioned picture for each one. Isn't that just delicious? A perfect assignment for children or anyone looking to stir up their own imagination -- make up your own short story to complete one of the mysteries Harris Burdick left behind!"
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