Steven Spielberg

First printing of the book adaptation of Spielberg's ambitious, high-tech, and awe-inspiring film.

• Steven Spielberg (American).
• New York: Delacorte Press, [1977].
• 256 pages.
• In original unclipped ($8.95) pictorial dust jacket designed by Dan Perri.
• Bound in original quarter black cloth, blue-grey paper boards, silver-lettered spine, dark grey endpapers.

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 that Spielberg managed to fund on the strength of Jaws, the film's ballooning budget nearly bankrupted Columbia Pictures – and joined the likes of Metropolis in film history.

Morton, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Making of Steven Spielberg's Classic Film".