Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
Book Details
📚 FIRST EDITION
- Author: James Gurney
- Publisher: Turner Publishing, Inc.
- Publication Year: 1992
- Format: Hardcover
- Condition: Good
- ISBN: 1878685236
- Language: English
- Edition: First Edition
Condition Notes
Bound in cloth with a pictorial dust jacket. The dust jacket shows light shelf wear and rubbing along the edges, with a small closed tear at the top edge of the rear panel. The binding is tight and square. The internal pages are clean and free of markings, highlighting, or inscriptions. No library stamps or stickers are present.
Description
Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time. Written and illustrated by James Gurney. Turner Publishing, Inc., Atlanta, 1992. Hardcover. The copyright page states First Edition, with a number line ending in 2. Produced by The Greenwich Workshop and printed in Italy. The book is presented as the recovered 19th-century journal of biologist Arthur Denison and his son Will, who are shipwrecked on a hidden island where humans and sentient dinosaurs live in a symbiotic society. The narrative is told through journal entries and is illustrated throughout with Gurney’s full-color paintings, including architectural renderings of cities like Waterfall City and Canyon City, maps of the island, and anatomical studies of various dinosaur species. It includes a guide to the Dinotopian footprint-based alphabet and a list of characters and dinosaur species featured in the text.
Topics & Subjects
fantasy • illustrated art book • science-fiction-fantasy • children's fiction • young adult • dinosaur fiction • lost world • utopian societies • first edition • 1990s vintage • hardcover • good condition • dinotopia series • picture book • nature and adventure
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