Publication: Jurassic Park: The Gift Edition

Publication: Jurassic Park: The Gift EditionPublication Record # 389570
Author: Michael Crichton
Date: 1993-08-24
ISBN: 0-679-43062-8 [978-0-679-43062-9]
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Price:
$35.00^?$: US dollar
Pages: xiv+461+[12]
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: NOVEL
Cover: Jurassic Park (1990) • by Chip Kidd
Notes:
- $46.00 in Canada.
- Cover artist credited on back flap of dustjacket.
- Cover of book lists title and author.
- Dustjacket is clear acetate with translucent skeleton of T-Rex.
- Blue circular sticker affixed to dustjacket proclaiming "AUTOGRAPHED / with 12 full-color paintings".
- Publication date from copyright page and code "8/93" on back flap of dustjacket.
- After examining five different copies next to each other in a store this has to be an auto-pen signature as they are exactly alike and in exactly the same spot on an otherwise blank page in each book.
- Signature page inserted after front free end-paper. Stock is heavier than the rest of the book.
- No numbering or limitation stated.
- Illustrated with 12 color plates scattered throughout the book. Each plate is on its own page (slick stock) with the image on the front and artist and other information on the back.
- Illustrations not included in the page numbering.
- No LCCN for this edition.
- Exact date from Open Library. The August 24, 1993 edition of the Courier-Post (a New Jersey, USA newspaper), http://courierpostonline.newspapers.com/newspage/183232709/, includes this quote: "Now Knopf has brought out an illustrated gift edition of Crichton's monster hit Jurassic Park, the story that made 1993 the year of the dinosaur for America's readers and moviegoers. This beautiful book boasts some elegant touches and has a dozen paintings of dinosaurs, including that unforgettable little villain, the velociraptor."
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 28774129

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Hypsilophodontids • (1993) • interior artwork by Douglas Henderson
Velociraptors • (1993) • interior artwork by Jan Sovak
Anatosaurs • (1993) • interior artwork by Brian Franczak
Triceratops • (1982) • interior artwork by Charles R. Knight
Stegosaurs • (1993) • interior artwork by Brian Franczak
Tyranosaurus Rex • (1993) • interior artwork by David Negran
Dilophosaurus • (1993) • interior artwork by Brian Franczak
Maiasaurs • (1993) • interior artwork by Douglas Henderson
Pterosaurus • (1993) • interior artwork by Jan Sovak
Plateosaurs • (1993) • interior artwork by Dougas Henderson
Microceratops • (1993) • interior artwork by Jan Sovak
Procompsodnathid with Dragonfly • (1993) • interior artwork by Jan Sovak
[vii] • Preface to the Illustrated Edition (Jurassic Park: The Gift Edition) • (1993) • essay by Michael Crichton
[xi] • Introduction: "The InGen Incident" • (1990) • essay by Michael Crichton
1 • Jurassic Park • [Jurassic Park • 1] • (1990) • novel by Michael Crichton

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Publication: Jurassic Park: The Gift Edition

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