The Jehol Fossils The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants by Pei-ji [Editor]; Wang, Yuan [Editor]; Wang, Yuan-qing [Editor]; Chang, Mee-Mann [Editor]; Chen ISBN 13: 9780123741738

London: Academic Press, 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. In recent years, the late Mesozoic fossils found at Jehol in northern China have shown the world some of the most astonishing creatures to be discovered since the first complete skeleton of Archaeopteryx in 1861, and have become the focus of important new paleontological research. On this fabulous roster are four-winged dinosaur and many feathered ones, the first beaked bird and many of its allies, the first plants with flowers and fruits, fishes with puzzling geographic distributions, early frogs, salamanders and mammals, pterosaurs that ruled the Mesozoic skies, and thousands of species of invertebrates such as molluscs, concostracans, ostracods, shrimps, insects and spiders [...] Lavishly illustrated with nearly 280 illustrations, including 200 photographs showing the diversity of taxa and beauty of their preservation. Oblong quarto. Original burgundy cloth binding, with silver titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Academic Press, 2008. 1. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good++ in a Very Good++ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Unmarked boards with "straight" edge-corners; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are bright and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); Gray dust jacket with fossil illustration, and title in white and black lettering; 2008, Academic Press; 208 pages; "The Jehol Fossils: The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants," by Mee-Mann Chang, et al.

Academic Press. Hardcover. 0123741734 in a dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be stored and delivered in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75" - 10.75" tall); Gray dust jacket with fossil illustration, and title in white and black lettering; 2008, Academic Press; 208 pages; "The Jehol Fossils: The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants," by Mee-Mann Chang, et al. . Very Good.