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Harvey Jason was sitting in his trailer with Steven Spielberg in 1996, in the midst of filming The Lost World: Jurassic Park, when he turned to the director and declared he was quitting the business. “I said, ‘Steven, you know what? When we wrap this film, I’m going to go into the first-edition book business with my son Louis.’” 

Jason was deep into a…