The Wreck of the Zephyr

E-281: 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. 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. Told in spare text and haunting, full-color pastels, Chris Van Allsburg’s spectral sailboats once again take impossbile flight. In illustrations so vivid one can feel the whisper of wind and hear the flutter of canvas, depart this world for another to entertain the marvelous possibility of dreams. ; 11.6 X 8.8 X 0.4 inches; 31 pages .