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Princeton University Press, Published 1996. Hardcover, xiv, 346 pp.; 25 cm; First Edition (with full number line); illustrated with 6 color plates, maps, and black-and-white drawings and photographs. Paintings by Wayne D. Barlowe; additional illustrations and art editing by Robert Walters.
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine; mild shelf and edge wear, a hint of fading along top edges, small dark spot on front board. Binding tight. Sticker residue at upper corner of front free endpaper; otherwise pages unmarked. Illustrated dust jacket with Barlowe painting of a lone Chasmosaurus wading in a swamp, front panel printed with a Jack Horner endorsement; mild shelf and edge wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Natural history of the ceratopsians, the horned dinosaurs, from Triceratops, Styracosaurus and Pachyrhinosaurus to the small, hornless Protoceratops and Psittacosaurus of Mongolia, by University of Pennsylvania paleontologist Peter Dodson, who named Avaceratops in 1986. Dodson covers anatomy, the history of discovery from Marsh and Cope through the American Museum's Mongolian expeditions, the family tree, and how ceratopsians lived and died, with personal asides from his own fieldwork. Six color plates by Wayne Barlowe and skeletal reconstructions by Robert Walters, with maps and photographs of type specimens. Honorable mention, Association of American Publishers award for best professional and scholarly book in geography and earth science, 1997. Original 1996 Princeton cloth edition, not the 2017 Princeton Legacy Library reprint. Contents: List of Figures; Preface; With Horns on Their Faces; Skin and Bones: The Anatomy of a Horned Dinosaur; Three-Horned Face; Five-Horned Face and Friends; A Big One on the Nose: The Short-Frilled Horned Dinosaurs; Newer Developments and Modern Studies; No Horns and No Frills: Small Beginnings; Sisters, Cousins, and Aunts: Deciphering the Family Tree; The Life and Death of Horned Dinosaurs; Notes; Literature Cited; Index.