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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in wraps. Stated first edition and first printing as per Random House numberline printing. Illustrated. Minimal shelf wear interior clean and fresh.

First Edition - 1st Printing Hardcover fine in fine dj; nearly as new.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. ISBN 0375507957. Hardback. First Printing. Near Fine condition book in a Near Fine condition dustjacket, with slight shelfwear to cover and jacket edges. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. $24.95 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket. Copy 1.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 239 pp, index, b/w photos. Light edge and corner wear.

2nd printing hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 242pp., b/w plates, map, bibliog., index, 'A young German paleontologist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, hopes to find fossil evidence of early mammals in the Bahariya Depression in Western Egypt. However he is about to learn that he has walked into the age of the dinosaurs. At the bottom of the Depression, he will find the remains of four immense and entirely new dinosaurs, along with dozens of other unique specimens'.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo 242pp., b/w plates, map, bibliog., index, 'A young German paleontologist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, hopes to find fossil evidence of early mammals in the Bahariya Depression in Western Egypt. However he is about to learn that he has walked into the age of the dinosaurs. At the bottom of the Depression, he will find the remains of four immense and entirely new dinosaurs, along with dozens of other unique specimens'.…

Hardcover; octavo, 239pp., monochrome plates and illustrations. Minor wear; board edges lightly bumped and rubbed; faint spotting to upper text block edges with small stain at spine edge. Otherwise very good to near fine in like dustwrapper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, hopes to find fossil evidence of early mammals. In this, he will be disappointed, for the rocks here will prove to be much older than he thinks. They are nearly a hundred million years old. Stromer is about to learn that he has walked into the age of the dinosaurs. At the bottom of the Bahariya Depression, Stromer will find the remains of four immense and entirely new dinosaurs, along with dozens of other unique specimens. But there will be reversals - shipments delayed for years by war, fossils shattered in transit, stunning personal and professional setbacks. Then, in a single cataclysmic night, all of his work will be destroyed and Ernst Stromer will slip into history and be forgotten. The date is January 11, 2000 - eighty-nine years to the day after Stromer descended into Bahariya. Another young paleontologist, American graduate student Josh Smith, has brought a team of fellow scientists to Egypt to find Stromer's dinosaur graveyard and resurrect the German pioneer's legacy. After weeks of digging, often under appalling conditions, they fail utterly at rediscovering any of Stromer's dinosaur species. Then, just when they are about to declare defeat, Smith's team discovers a dinosaur of such staggering immensity that it will stun the world of paleontology and make headlines around the globe. Masterfully weaving together history, science, and human drama, The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt is the gripping account of not one but two of the twentieth century's great expeditions of discovery.…