Jaws.

BENCHLEY, Peter.

Item Number: 115899

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1974.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the month of publication, “Feb 9 1974 For Bob always and for so many reasons- best wishes Pete.” Fine in near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed in the month of publication.

When Peter Benchley wrote Jaws in the early 1970s, he meticulously researched all available data about shark behavior, resulting in the classic work. “A tightly written, tautly paced study of terror [that] makes us tingle" (The Washington Post). Made into the blockbuster motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Murray Hamilton, and Lorraine Gary. In 2001, Jaws was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".