The Stepford Wives.

LEVIN, Ira [Katharine Ross].

$2,000.00

Item Number: 142445

New York: Random House, 1972.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1975 film starring Katharine Ross. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly inscribed by Ira Levin and actress Katharine Ross on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Rare and desirable.

At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon. "[Ira Levin] is the Swiss watchmaker of the suspense novel" (Stephen King). It is the basis for the 1975 film directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the screenplay by William Goldman, starring Katharine Ross.