The Princess Bride.

GOLDMAN, William.

Item Number: 74365

New York: Ballantine Books, 1997.

Early printing of the 25th Anniversary edition of this classic. Octavo, original cloth. pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by William Goldman. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ruth Ross. Jacket illustration by K. Green.

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.