CRICHTON, Michael.
Jurassic Park and The Lost World.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1990 and 1995.
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“The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us": First Editions of Jurassic Park and The Lost World; Inscribed By Michael Crichton and Signed by Legendary Designer Chip Kidd with Original Drawings
First editions of Crichton's gripping, bestselling scientific thriller and its sequel The Lost World. Octavo, two volumes, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers in The Lost World. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper of Jurassic Park with his official stamp of a T-Rex below, "For Mabry and Joan - with love, Michael LA 12.13.90." Additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd on the front jacket panel, the front free endpaper, and on the rear jacket flap with an original drawing of the iconic dust jacket dinosaur on the front free endpaper. The Lost World is signed twice by jacket designer Chip Kidd on the front jacket panel and front free endpaper with an original drawing of the iconic dust jacket dinosaur from the sequel. Fine in fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Rare and desirable.
"A superior specimen of the [Frankenstein] myth, and easily the best of Crichton's novels to date" (New York Times), Jurassic Park definitively established its author as "the most commercially successful science fiction writer of all time" (Robinson, 208)—although, ironically, he is rarely labeled a genre author. Steven Spielberg directed the 1993 blockbuster film adaptation; its ground-breaking visual effects brought Crichton's terrifying dinosaurs to computer-generated cinematic life. The film won more than twenty awards, including three Academy Awards for its technical achievements in visual effects and sound design. Jurassic Park is considered a landmark in the development of computer-generated imagery and animatronic visual effects, and was followed by four commercially successful sequels, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Jurassic Park III (2001), Jurassic World (2015) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), Jurassic World Dominion (2022), and Jurassic World Rebirth (2025).
Jurassic Park and The Lost World.
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