Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick in an un-clipped dust jacket protected in a new archival wrap.
The book is in Very Good condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a tilted spine, lightly foxed page blocks, tight binding, heavy spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear. First state jacket with the price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Paleontologist Richard Leyster has achieved professional nirvana: a position with the Smithsonian Museum plus a groundbreaking dinosaur fossil site he can research, publish on, and learn from for years to come. There is nothing that could lure him away — until a disturbingly secretive stranger named Griffin enters Leyster’s office with an ice cooler and a job offer. In the cooler is the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
