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Very Good/Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾-9¾Tall; Type: Ex-Library This story is about a teenage boy who explores the deserted colonies near his fathers Cape Cod research station when the energy supply has been almost depleted and begins to understand the long term effects of recent climate and weather changes and enviromental pollution. The book has the usual library markings on the edge pages and inside the book indicating it is ex-library. The library removed the first blank page.
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Near Fine in very good jacket. Inscribed by Bond to Margaret Kimmel, ALSO with a hand-written card from Bond to Kimmel laid in. First edition, 1981. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 319 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket, minor soiling to the page-edges, discoloration to the dust jacket, dust jacket also with some wear at the tips. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Signed by Nancy Bond and inscribed by her to Maggie Kimmel on the half-title page. Also with a hand-written card from Bond to Kimmel laid in--letter references "The Voyage Begun". Margaret "Maggie" Kimmel (1938-2014) was a distinguished professor of Library Sciences, and was also a past president of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). She pioneered the field of oral story-telling to children, authored the children's book Magic in the Mist (illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman) in 1975, and co-authored For Reading Out Loud! She served on two Newbery/Caldecott awards. She was also good friends with Fred Rogers and many other children's book authors.