Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy with light rubbing to rear dust jacket. Beautifully illustrated in full-color. The crew of a ship become ill after a mysterious stone is taken aboard their ship, in another tale by one of America's premier author/illustrators.