Andromeda Strain, Signed (7 results)

Full Leather. Condition: New. Collector's Edition. A scarce handsome dark green leather Collector's Edition of one of Michael Crichton's most admired books, signed by him on the signature page. With gold gilt cover designs and page edges, moire silk endpapers and bound-in silk bookmark. In fine unread condition in the original shrinkwrap. By the author of "Jurassic Park, "Lost World," "Timeline," and "Disclosure." A beautiful copy still in the scarce shrinkwrap from a very reliable seller!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Unopened, sealed, in fine condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Limited Edition. Very fine. Sealed. Mint condition without any flaws. This book recounts the five-day history of a major American scientific crisis. As in most crises, the events surrounding the Andromeda Strain were a compound of foresight and foolishness, innocence and ignorance. Nearly everyone involved had moments of great brilliance, and moments of unaccountable stupidity. Thus begins this extraordinary novel of the world's first space-age biological emergency. The Andromeda Strain sets forth with almost documentary verisimilitude the unfolding story of "Project Wildfire" � the crash mobilization of the nation's highest scientific and medical resources when an unmanned research satellite returns to earth mysteriously and lethally contaminated. Four American scientists, chosen in advance for their experimental achievements in the fields of clinical microbiology, epidemiology, pathology, and electrolyte chemistry, are summoned under conditions of total news blackout and utmost urgency to Wildfire's secret laboratory five stories beneath the Nevada desert. There they are surrounded by banks of the most sophisticated computer-assisted equipment, and sealed off from the outside world except for a telecommunications link with the national security apparatus they work against the threat of a worldwide epidemic to find an antidote to the unknown microorganism that has inexplicably killed all but two inhabitants (an elderly derelict and an infant) of the tiny Arizona town where the satellite was retrieved. Step by step they begin to unravel the puzzle of the Andromeda Strain, until, terrifyingly, their microbacterial "adversary" ruptures the hypersterile seal of the laboratory and their already desperate search for a biomedical answerbecomes a split-second race against an atomic deadline. With its narrative force, its scientific detail, its suspense � as four brilliant individualists work together under ultimate pressure this novel makes real for the reader the real world of today's science and medicine at the top-secret levels of the Science-Space-Military high command. The author is a trained scientist. Newspaper stories from NASA that have appeared since the completion of the manuscript read like details from "The Andromeda Strain" . Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A lightly used second printing inscribed and signed by Crichton with a date of 3/20/70. Original price of $5.95 on the jacket's flap. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition/1st Printing (with date stamp of '5/69' on rear dj flap). Attached to front end page is a Postal First Day Cover (FDC) - SIGNED by Michael Crichton (signature only). Possible ex-lib copy with no stampings but has tape residue on boards and DJ and some glue residue on rear end page. DJ has light creases on flaps and some edge wear. . $5.95 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. . DJ designed by Paul Bacon. Some spine lean and fading of gray top-staining, and page age-toning. From the famous 1971 film version of the novel: Attached to half-title page is photo-card SIGNED by JAMES OLSON (played 'Dr. Mark Hill') and a card SIGNED by famed director ROBERT WISE (director of film). Author's first novel under his own name. NOTE: NO INTERNATIONAL orders for this item. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: BOOK NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: JACKET NEAR FINE. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on special, decorative bookplate. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET. 1ST PRINTING. Author's first novel. 304 pages. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. HANDSOME, COLLECTIBLE COPY! Signed by Author.

1st edition thus SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR Fine condition, no dustjacket, as issued (laid in are a note from the publisher, and a certificate of authenticity additionally signed by Crichton.