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"The Genesis of the Academy Award-Winning Blockbuster Saga Jurassic Park Logo": First edition of Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution; the Original Source for Chip Kidd's Iconic Jurassic Park Dust Jacket Design
CARROLL, Robert T. [Chip Kidd] [Michael Crichton].
Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. [Inspiration For Jurassic Park].
New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1988.
First edition this standard modern textbook on paleontology, containing the very first drawings in the development of Knopf senior designer Chip Kidd's design for the iconic dust jacket of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, a design that would come to define one of the most recognizable logos in modern popular culture. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Signed by Chip Kidd on the front free endpaper, "Source of the J.P. Logo! -C." With Kidd's original drawings and annotations to page 296 which contain scientific illustrations of the skeletal anatomy of the Tyrannosaurus. Kidd has sketched beneath the tyrannosaurus skeletal profile in blue and red pen, "Jurassic Park Michael Crichton" an almost exact replica of the final dust jacket design. He has also highlighted the terms "Jurassic" and "Tyrannosaurus" and added creative notes, "Just the head?" and "Or Upper/Whole Body?" Kidd has also added his initials "C.K." beneath the design. Jurassic Park, published in 1990, is among the most famous and influential works of modern science fiction. Blending themes of genetic engineering, chaos theory, and the ethical implications of scientific advancement into a thrilling narrative, it launched a major franchise encompassing sequels, films, and adaptations across multiple media. The artwor...
Price: $95,000.00 Item Number: 151651
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“The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us": First Edition of Jurassic Park; Signed by Michael Crichton, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Three Times by Chip Kidd With an Original Drawing
CRICHTON, Michael [Sam Neill; Laura Dern; Chip Kidd].
Jurassic Park.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
First edition of Crichton's gripping, bestselling scientific thriller, basis for the film directed by Steven Spielberg. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Michael Crichton, actor Sam Neill, and actress Laura Dern on the front free endpaper. Additionally signed and dated in the year of publication with an original drawing of the iconic dust jacket dinosaur by jacket designer Chip Kidd on the front free endpaper, again on the front jacket panel and on the rear flap. Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (Universal Pictures, 1993) — adapted from Michael Crichton's 1990 novel with a screenplay by Crichton and David Koepp — stands as one of the most significant achievements in the history of popular cinema, a film that permanently transformed the possibilities of visual effects technology while simultaneously delivering the kind of primal, kinetic storytelling that has always defined Spielberg's greatest work. At the center of its ensemble are two performances of particular distinction: Sir Sam Neill — the New Zealand-born actor appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to acting in 1991, and whose equally celebrated work that same year in Jane Campion's The Piano won the Palme d'Or at Cannes — as the skeptical paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant, br...
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 151969
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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
CRICHTON, Michael.
Jurassic Park and The Lost World.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990 and 1995.
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.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 151540
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First Edition of The Road; Signed Bookplate by Cormac McCarthy, and Signed Three Times by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
MCCARTHY, Cormac [Chip Kidd].
The Road.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
First edition of McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a post-apocalyptic world, a work of “stunning, savage beauty,” adapted to the screen in 2009 starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on a laid in bookplate. Additionally signed three times by legendary jacket designer Chip Kidd: in the year of publication and with a drawing of a road on the front panel, the front free endpaper, and again on the rear panel. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Housed in custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery, which is also signed by Chip Kidd on the front panel.
Price: $6,800.00 Item Number: 152031
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“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade": First Edition of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles; Signed by Haruki Murakami and five times by Illustrator Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
First edition of Murakami's heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly by Haruki Murakami and additionally signed five times by legendary jacket illustrator Chip Kidd; on the front panel of the book, on the front panel of the jacket, on the half-title page, on the rear jacket flap, and on the panel of the jacket. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. A unique example.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 148290
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First edition of The Lost World; signed by Michael Crichton and three times by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd and with an original drawing
CRICHTON, Michael.
The Lost World.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
First edition of Crichton's sequel to Jurassic Park. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Michael Crichton on the half-title page, "To Mrs. Pat Lisahie Best wishes Michael Crichton" and Chip Kidd Additionally signed by Chip Kidd with an original drawing mimicking the dust jacket art which he designed on the title page. Additionally signed by Kidd on the rear flap of the dust jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 146453
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"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from": Advanced Reading Copy of the First Edition of No Country For Old Men; Signed by Cormac McCarthy and Three Times by Legendary Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
MCCARTHY, Cormac [Chip Kidd].
No Country For Old Men.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Advanced reading copy of the first edition of this “harrowing, propulsive drama… about a stone-cold killer, a small-town sheriff, and an average Joe” (New York Times). Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page and signed three times by legendary jacket designer Chip Kidd: on the front panel in the month and year of publication, the verso of the front panel in the month and year of publication, and on the rear panel. In fine condition. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 151973
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First Edition of The Beak of the Finch; Inscribed by Jonathan Weiner to Naturalist Edward O. Wilson and Signed by Jacket Illustrator Chip Kidd
WEINER, Jonathan [Edward Wilson; Chip Kidd].
The Beak of the Finch: The Story of Evolution in Our Time.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to naturalist Edward O. Wilson, "For Edward, with best wishes, Jonathan Weiner May, 2016." Additionally signed by jacket designer Chip Kidd on the rear jacket flap. The recipient, Edward Osborne Wilson, was an American biologist, naturalist, and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author widely regarded as one of the greatest natural scientists of the twentieth century, whose career at Harvard University across nearly five decades produced foundational contributions to entomology, evolutionary biology, island biogeography, and the theory of sociobiology that permanently transformed our understanding of the biological basis of social behavior in animals and humans alike. His seminal works include Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975), On Human Nature (1978), for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Ants (1990, co-authored with Bert Hölldobler), which also won a Pulitzer Prize, and Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), in which he argued with characteristic audacity that all branches of human knowledge, from the natural sciences to the humanities, are fundamentally unified by a small num...
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 152288
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First Edition of The Stonemason; Signed by Cormac McCarthy and Signed Three times by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd in the Year of Publication
MCCARTHY, Cormac [Chip Kidd].
The Stonemason: A Play In Five Acts.
Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1994.
First edition of this expansively imagined drama about four generations of an American family. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the front free endpaper. Additionally signed and dated three times by legendary jacket designer Chip Kidd in the year of publication: on the front panel, on the half-title page, and on the rear panel. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 151995
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First Edition of The Stonemason; Signed by Cormac McCarthy and Signed Three times by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd in the Year of Publication
MCCARTHY, Cormac [Chip Kidd].
The Stonemason: A Play In Five Acts.
Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1994.
First edition of this expansively imagined drama about four generations of an American family. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the front free endpaper. Additionally signed and dated three times by legendary jacket designer Chip Kidd in the year of publication: on the front panel, on the front free endpaper, and on the rear panel. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 151479
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First Edition of Haruki Murakami's After Dark; Signed by Him and Three Times by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
After Dark.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
First edition of this "hypnotically eerie, sometimes even funny, but most of all, it’s [a book] that keeps ratcheting up the suspense"(The New York Times). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed Haruki Murakami on the title page. Additionally signed three times in the year of publication by jacket designer Chip Kidd: on the front panel, below Murakami's signature on the title page, and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 151622
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First edition of Michael Crichton's Airframe; signed with an original drawing by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd
CRICHTON, Michael.
Airframe.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
First edition of Crichton's compelling page-turner. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd with an original drawing of his design for Crichton's The Lost World on the dedication page and signed on the rear panel of the dust jacket. American graphic designer Chip Kidd first joined the Knopf design team in 1986, when he was hired as a junior assistant. Turning out jacket designs at an average of 75 covers a year, he has designed dust jackets for books by Cormac McCarthy, Haruki Murakami, Frank Miller, Charles Schulz, David Sedaris, and John Updike. He is perhaps best known for the dust jacket design for Crichton's Jurassic Park, which remains one of the most recognizable and iconic dust jacket designs of all time and inspired the branding for Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Academy Award-winning film adaptation and the subsequent multimedia franchise. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 124553
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First Editions of A Boy's Own Story Trilogy; Each Signed by Edmund White and Signed Three Times by Legendary Designer Chip Kidd
WHITE, Edmund [Chip Kidd].
A Boy’s Own Story; The Beautiful Room is Empty; The Farewell Symphony.
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc.; Alfred A. Knopf, 1982-1997.
First editions of this classic trilogy tracing the coming-of-age story of a gay man across mid-to-late 20th-century America. Octavo, three volumes, original half cloth. A Boy's Own Story is a first edition, review copy with the original publisher’s slip laid in along with a pre-release article from Dutton News. Each volume is signed by Edmund White with The Beautiful Room is Empty being a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For George lots of love Edmund White." The Beautiful Room is Empty and The Farewell Symphony are signed three times by legendary designer Chip Kidd: on the front panel, on the half-title page, and on the rear panel. Each volume is fine in a near fine to fine dust jackets. Jacket design for A Boy's Own Story by Earl Tidwell. Jacket design for The Beautiful Room is Empty and The Farewell Symphony by Chip Kidd.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 151482
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"Image was shot from a Pepsi commercial on TV": First Edition of Michael Crichton's Rising Sun; Inscribed by Him and Signed Three Times by Legendary Jacket Designer Chip Kidd in the Year of Publication
CRICHTON, Michael.
Rising Sun.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
First edition of this work, basis for the film starring Sean Connery. Octavo, original half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Michael Crichton in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Pat - How great to see you again! Let's do lunch! Best wishes - Michael Crichton LA 4/8/92." Boldly signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel, on the front free endpaper, and the rear jacket flap. Including an inscription by Kidd in the year of publication on the front panel of the dust jacket, "Image was shot from a Pepsi commercial on TV Chip Kidd 1992." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Unique.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 151596
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"It's a floppy thing. From the 60s. Without the stick... floppy. Nice piece. Scarce": First edition of Chip Kidd's Batman Collected; Signed Four Times by Him with an Original Drawing of Batman
KIDD, Chip.
Batman Collected.
Boston: A Bullfinch Press Book/Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
First edition of Kidd's tribute to the power of the Batman legend, drawing on his own collection as well as DC Comics archives. Quarto, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, photographs by Geoff Spear. Boldly signed four times by Chip Kidd on the front panel of the dust jacket, opposite the title page with an original drawing of Batman dated 1996, on the page after the title page, and on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the rear jacket panel. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Jacket photographs by Geoff Spear. Accompanied by a build your own Batman folding paper figurine laid in.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 151993
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Signed Limited Edition of Mark Evanier's The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz; Signed by Legendary Designer Chip Kidd with an Original Peanuts Artwork Print Signed by Mark Evanier, Chip Kidd, and Patrick McDonnell
EVANIER, Mark [Charles M. Schulz; Chip Kidd].
The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time.
New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2025.
Signed limited first edition of this landmark deluxe anniversary volume celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Peanuts. Rectangular quarto, pictorial boards and endpapers, illustrated with over 700 iconic comic strips and related ephemera, with included bonus items of eight ready-to-frame prints, eight postcards, vinyl decals, an iron-on patch, and a full-color comic book. Boldly signed and dated by contributor and legendary designer Chip Kidd on the title page in the year of publication. Accompanied by a limited edition Schulz' original Peanuts artwork print signed on the lower margin by Mark Evanier, Chip Kidd, and Patrick McDonnell. One of 500 numbered copies, this is lettered AU. In fine condition. Introduction by Patrick McDonnell. Foreword by Jean Schulz. Housed in the original golden slipcase with Charlie Brown and Snoopy on the front panel.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 152047
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“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade": First Edition of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles; Signed three times by Illustrator Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
First edition of Murakami's heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. Octavo, original boards. Signed three times by the jacket illustrator Chip Kidd; once on the front panel, on the half-title page and on the rear jacket flap. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 125609
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First Edition of When You Are Engulfed in Flames; Signed by David Sedaris and Three Times by Legendary Jacket Designer Chip Kidd in the Year of Publication
SEDARIS, David.
When You Are Engulfed in Flames.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008.
First edition of this collection of 22 autobiographical essays by humorist David Sedaris. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth. Boldly signed by David Sedaris on the title page. Boldly signed three times in the year of publication by jacket designer Chip Kidd: on the front panel, on the title page, and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light bumping. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 151621
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First Edition of Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's Batman: Death by Design; Signed Twice by Legendary Designer Chip Kidd With An Original Drawing
KIDD, Chip; Dave Taylor.
Batman: Death by Design.
Burbank, California: DC Comics, 2012.
First edition of this graphic novel following the Dark Knight as he investigates a string of deadly "accidents" and architectural sabotage hindering a massive construction renaissance in Gotham City. Quarto, original pictorial cloth covered boards, pictorial endpapers, graphically illustrated throughout. Boldly signed twice by legendary designer Chip Kidd on the front panel and on the front endpapers with an original sketch of Batman to the lower right. In fine condition. Story and publication design by Chip Kidd. Art by Dave Taylor.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 151986
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First Edition of Howard Stern: Miss America; Signed by Him and Three Times by Legendary Designer Chip Kidd in the Year of Publication
STERN, Howard.
Howard Stern: Miss America.
New York: Regan Books, 1995.
First edition of Howard Stern's second autobiography. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed and dated by Howard Stern in black felt tip in the year of publication. Additionally signed and dated three times in the year of publication by legendary designer Chip Kidd on the front panel of the book, the title page, and on page 478 of the acknowledgements. Text and binding designed by Chip Kidd and Nina Gaskin. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Heller and Oscar Gonzalez. Front jacket photograph by Paul Aresu.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 151170
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First Edition of Be Cool; Inscribed by Elmore Leonard and Three Times by Legendary Jacket designer Chip Kidd
LEONARD, Elmore.
Be Cool.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1999.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Elmore Leonard on the title page. Additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd on the front panel, on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Jacket photograph by Douglas Brooker.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 151996
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First Edition of The Shards; Inscribed by Bret Easton Ellis and Signed Three Times by Legendary Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
ELLIS, Bret Easton.
The Shards.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
First edition of this New York Times bestselling thriller from the author of American Psycho. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth. Signed by the author on the second free endpaper, "Bret Easton Ellis." Signed three times by legendary jacket designer Chip Kidd on the front panel (in the year of publication) and second free endpaper, "Chip Kidd 2023" and on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 151153
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"Faster than a speeding bullet - more powerful than a locomotive...": First edition of Les Daniels' Superman: The Golden Age; signed twice and inscribed by art director and designer Chip Kidd
DANIELS, Les. [Chip Kidd].
Superman: The Golden Age. In Color!
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999.
First edition of the early history of the first popular superhero, Superman. Royal octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Signed on the title page and rear jacket flap by art director and designer Chip Kidd. Additionally inscribed by Kidd on the front panel of the dust jacket in a speech bubble, "For Ari." Photographs by Geoff Spear. Art direction and design by Chip Kidd. Design assistance by Chin-Yee Lai. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Jacket photographs by Geoff Spear. Front Jacket art by Fred Ray. Back jacket art by H. J. Ward. Author photograph by Beth Gwinn.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 147260
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First edition of Scott Kelly's Endurance; signed by him and signed three times by legendary dust jacket Designer Chip Kidd
KELLY, Scott with Margaret Lazarus Dean. [Chip Kidd].
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
First edition of the famed astronaut's stunning memoir. Octavo, original cloth, with 24 pages of full-color photographs. Boldly signed by Scott Kelly on the title page. Additionally signed three times by dust jacket illustrator Chip Kidd on the front panel of the dust jacket, on the title page, and rear flap of the dust jacket. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 149530
