Barlowe's Guide to Extraterestrials: Great Aliens from Science Fiction Literature by Wayne Barlowe, Beth Meacham & Ian Summers [FIRST EDITION]

FIRST EDITION [1979] WORKMAN PUBLISHING

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Some light edge wear to DJ, but overall in very good condition.  Book itself looks and reads like new. 

The extraterrestrials are here. One man has seen them.

Wayne Dougles Barlowe's brilliant portraits of science fiction creatures are the result of exacting studies made during a lifetime in the field. He now presents anatomical drawings, cutaway and locomotive studies, and at-hand observations of each entity's habits, behavioral patterns, environment, and culture.

Wayne Douglas Barlowe has been that close.