BENCHLEY, Peter.
Jaws.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974.
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First Edition of Jaws; Signed by Peter Benchley with an Original Drawing of a Shark
First edition of Benchley's bestselling thriller and basis for the blockbuster 1975 motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. Octavo, original cloth, blue endpapers. Boldly signed by the author on the second front free endpaper with an original drawing of a shark in his hand. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Author photograph by Alex Gotfryd. Rare and desirable.
A "confrontation between man and nature [that] consciously echoes Moby Dick" (Fantasy and Horror 6-27), Benchley's first novel spent 44 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in 1974. He also wrote the screenplay for the blockbuster 1975 film adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg. In a later interview, Benchley said, "I knew that Jaws couldn't possibly be successful. It was a first novel, and nobody reads first novels. It was a first novel about a fish, so who cares? And I knew they couldn't make a movie because nobody could catch and train a great white shark and the technology of the time wasn't up to creating a credible animal. So much for what I knew" (Time).
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