L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP — The Hostage of Zir

New York, NY: Berkley Publication, 1977. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399120971. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of two very small spots of rubbing - one to the front cover, and one to the top spine end. "De Camp made a suggestion in 1968 that fossil discoveries had influenced modern reports of sea monster sightings. The suggestion was made in his article "Dinosaurs in Today's World" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction v. 34, no. 3, March 1968, later reprinted in his nonfiction collection The Fringe of the Unknown, Buffalo, New York: Prometheus, 1983. In 2019 de Camp's theory was scientifically tested by C. G. M. Paxton and D. Naish, who concluded trends in the data of reported sightings appear to support his hypothesis. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .