Jaws.

BENCHLEY, Peter.

$4,500.00

Item Number: 147989

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1974.

First edition of the author’s classic work, basis for the cult film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt stamped to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on a page bound in, “For Sandra Clarke- with best wishes- Peter Benchley 10/29/81.” In fine condition. An exceptional presentation, most rare and desirable signed.

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".