Jurassic Park: The Gift Edition

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Overview:

Title: Jurassic Park: The Gift Edition
Author: Michael Crichton
Year: 1993
ISBN-10: 0679430628
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Price: $35.00
Pages: xiv+461+[12]
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: Jurassic Park
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."