The Flight of Dragons by Peter Dickinson [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1979 • Harper & Row

The Flight of Dragons by Peter Dickinson and illustrated by Wayne Anderson

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1979] HARPER & ROW

Large oversized art hardcover with fitted designer dust jacket in excellent condition. 

Beautiful copy with mild shelf wear to jacket.  Book itself is pristine; looks and reads like new!

Recreates the dragons of ancient myth and legend, showing how they flew, breathed fire, mated, hatched their young, hoarded gold and precious stones, and defended themselves

Dragons are real. At every turn, full-page powerful hypnotic eyes, fierce toothy maws, powerful sinewy bodies, convince us. Descended from dinosaurs, light bones separate compartments of hydrogen. Gas inflates for buoyancy. Chemical sulfur reactions flame breath. Soft gold metal cushions rock bedding. Human worship sacrifices submissive maidens.