Williams, Paige. The Dinosaur Artist. Obsession, Betrayal and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy. New York: Hachette, 2018. Octavo. Original white boards, titles to spine in copper. With the dust jacket. A little light smudging to the upper board, likely from the manufacturing process. A fine copy in the fresh jacket. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title. This best-selling true-crime tale centers on the remarkable 2013 legal case The United States of America v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton, in which the court decided the fate of a skeleton smuggled to the US from Mongolia by fossil dealer Eric Prokopi. Author Paige Williams, of the New Yorker, explores important questions that have surrounded the practice of palaeontology since its earliest days who gets credit for, and benefits from, fossil
discoveries, and is it ever ethical to sell fossils on the open market?

An important contribution to the public's understanding of the history and ethics of fossil hunting.