first edition
1977 · New York
by Spielberg, Steven
New York: Delacorte Press, 1977. First edition (stated). Very good in very good jacket.. First printing of the book adaptation of Spielberg's ambitious, high-tech, and awe-inspiring film. In his book about the history of the film, Ray Morton pairs CLOSE ENCOUNTERS with STAR WARS (released the same year) as the two works that "revolutionized the movie industry by helping to create the modern blockbuster; by initiating the late 1970s/early 1980s cycle of science fiction and fantasy movies that produced a number of classic works of imaginative cinema [...] and by ushering in a new era of high-tech visual and special effects." A complex and ambitious project (truncated)