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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0679446486 . A first Trade edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with sunning to the board trim in a Fine dust-jacket; In this novel, a scientist named Jack Hallahan is working on a new aircraft design. He and his team are making great progress, but they run into some problems. One of the engineers, Bud Hallahan, is not doing well. His health is failing, and he is having a hard time concentrating. Jack takes him off of the project, but Bud doesn't want to give up. He fights to keep his place on the team, even though he is not doing well. Eventually, Jack and Bud come to an agreement: Bud will stay on the project and help out as much as he can, and Jack will take him off of the project once it is finished.; 8vo; 351 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0679446486 . An outstanding copy of the first trade edition (preceded only by a privately published Franklin Library edition) in fine/fine condition, SIGNED by author Michael Crichton directly on the title page; A deadly midair disaster aboard a commercial airliner from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation; 8vo; Signed by Author .

New York: Harpercollins Publishers. As New in As New dust jacket. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060872985 . An outstanding copy of the first edition/first printing in As New/As New condition; With Next, Crichton blends fact and fiction. He explores the ethics of commercial genetic engineering, giving examples of genes being patented and sold. Your own DNA may be someone else's legal property, and, the big question, "Are blondes becoming extinct?"; 8vo .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0679444815 . An handsome first trade edition/first prining in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; Michael Crichton's tale opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized -- and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France; 8vo; [2], xii, 449, [1] pages .