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Hardcover, in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 164 pages. Illustrated with over two dozen black and white drawings and photographs, and one full page color photograph. Stated first edition, first printing with full number line, The story of David Wilson’s Museum of Jurassic Technology, based in Los Angeles and in a larger sense, as the title suggests, man’s curiosity with the bizarre and unexplained. From the author’s reference to 16th century Wunderkammern in the title to the frontispiece depicting Charles Wilson Peale’s 19th century museum of the odd and fantastic the reader is assured of a vertiginous journey which skirts, and often ignores, the boundaries of modern science. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.