E-184: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 1983. Unpaginated (32 pgs). Illustrated with color drawings. Signed and inscribed by Chris Van Allsburg on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in red cloth, gilt-stamped central vignette, gilt-lettered spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In 1983, beloved Caldecott-winning illustrator, Chris Van Allsburg, first invited readers to peer over the edge of a cliff to consider the wreck of a small sailboat. Had a churning sea carried the Zephyr up in a storm? Could waves ever have been so impossibly high? And what of the boy who had believed—dared to chase the wind—no matter where it lead? The winds have shifted once again and you’re invited back to the wreck of the Zephyr, to hear the story of the boy and his obsession to become the world’s greatest sailor, and a storm that carried them to a place where boats sail on the wind, instead of on the water. E-184; 11.6 X 8.8 X 0.4 inches; 31 pages; Signed by Author .

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At the edge of a cliff lies the wreck of a small sailboat. How did it get there? "Waves carried it up in a storm," says an old sailor. But is it possible that waves could ever get that high? There is another story -- the story of a boy and his obsessive desire to be the greatest sailor, the story of a storm that carried the boy and his boat to a place where boats glide like gulls high above the water and not upon it. Chris Van Allsburg tells that story of the boy and his boat, the Zephyr, in words and haunting, full-color pastel paintings. His sailboats sail the night sky with the stars in pictures so vivid that the reader can almost hear the wind in the sails. Here is a work of unusual artistry that will enchant readers of all ages for many years to come.

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Bookseller: Last Exit Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 58432
Title: The Wreck of the Zephyr
Author: Van Allsburg, Chris
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10: 0395330750
ISBN 13: 9780395330753
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Place of Publication: E-184
Date Published: 1983

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