Jurassic Park.

Signed limited first edition of Crichton’s gripping, bestselling scientific thriller, gifted from Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike to his son. Octavo, original leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in three compartments in raised bands, triple gilt ruling and dinosaur designs to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, silk ribbon bound in, title page vignette. Boldly signed by Michael Crichton and with a large original drawing of the iconic dust jacket dinosaur by legendary designer Chip Kidd and signed by him. Additionally inscribed by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike to his son Michael J. Updike on the front free endpaper, "Michael - Here's a novel might be right up your alley. or might not be. Love, Dad and Martha Xmas 90." John Updike was a novelist, short-story writer, poet, and critic whose prolific body of work offers one of the most incisive literary portraits of postwar American life. Over the course of his career, he was widely recognized with major honors, including two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction (1982, 1991), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Medal of Arts (1989), the National Humanities Medal (2003), and the American Academy of Arts & Letters Gold Medal for Fiction (2007). Michael J. Updike, the son of novelist John Updike, is an American sculptor whose work is known for its inventive use of stone, wood, and found materials to explore themes of memory, materiality, and everyday ritual. Accompanied by an autograph note from Michael laid in, "Sept, 13, 98 This book, Jurassic Park, was given to me and inscribed by my father John Updike the author, Michael J. Updike." In fine condition. A unique example.