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<< I recall a paperback large format edition of Niven short stories
published in the late 70's which had wonderfull artwork, including
some color plates, of Nivens aliens, both fleshed and as skeletons, >>

Hmm. There was a series of releases that each had one alien, fleshed and
defleshed, as inside front and back covers.

But what you're descrbing overall sounds more like

The Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld by Kevin Stein

http://www.larryniven.org/reviews/other.html
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In article <20040308105954.20524.00001188.RemoveThis@mb-m28.aol.com>,
ANIM8Rfsk <anim8rfsk.RemoveThis@aol.comNOSPAM> wrote:
 ><< From: kahuna kahuna.RemoveThis@flex.com >>
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 ><< I recall a paperback large format edition of Niven short stories
 >published in the late 70's which had wonderfull artwork, including
 >some color plates, of Nivens aliens, both fleshed and as skeletons, >>
 >
 >Hmm. There was a series of releases that each had one alien, fleshed and
 >defleshed, as inside front and back covers.

  Ballantine, pre-Del Rey (although possibly not pre del Rey)? Rick
Sternbach covers, and the illustrations had the fleshed alien on the inside
front cover and the unfleshed on the indside back cover?

  Those are for me the -definitive- Niven releases, the ones I
ran into first when I was a raving Niven fanboy. Well, with the exception
of the very first (and still favourite Niven) collection I ever saw, _A
Hole in Space_. I wish the young Niven had developed the Teleport universe
a bit more.
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