The Princess Bride.

GOLDMAN, William.

$9,800.00

Item Number: 148188

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.

First edition of Goldman’s classic novel. Octavo, original gray cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “11 Apr 85 For Helena God bless us every one Sincerely William Goldman.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

Ross MacDonald praised The Princess Bride as "[a] comic adventure romance which moves all over the world and dances through history...carried off with fantastic inventive energy and lightness, everything converted into pure story...The Princess Bride is a joyous and releasing book." "[Goldman's] swashbuckling fable is nutball funny...a 'classic' medieval melodrama that sounds like all the Saturday serials you ever saw feverishly reworked by the Marx Brothers," said Newsweek. Basis for the 1987 film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner, and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant and Christopher Guest.