New York is Book Country was a Manhattan street fair and literary celebration begun in 1979 and abruptly cancelled in 2010. Each year, a prominent artist or book illustrator created a poster to mark the event. Oftentimes, the artist was on hand to autograph the poster for attendees. The very first NY is BC featured two posters, one created by Edward Gorey and a second by Maurice Sendak. In subsequent years, only one was issued.

This original 26 x 20” color poster by children’s illustrator James Gurney (The Dinotopia Series: A Land Apart from Time (1992), The World Beneath (1995), First Flight (1999)) features a young boy sailing past the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings, aloft on a book with a dinosaur companion. The official poster of New York is Book Country, 1996, in Fine condition.