B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S S U M M E R 2 0 2 3 16 "ANOTHER GALAXY, ANOTHER TIME": THE STAR WARS TRILOGY NOVELIZATIONS, EACH SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 16. (FOSTER, Alan Dean) LUCAS, George. Star Wars. From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker. WITH: Star Wars. The Empire Strikes Back. WITH: Star Wars. Return of the Jedi. New York: Del Rey, (1976, 1980, 1983). Three volumes. Octavo, original gray, blue, and red boards, original dust jackets. $3200 True "rst hardbound edition of the novelization of Star Wars, signed on the title page by ghostwriter Alan Dean Foster, together with book club editions of the novelizations of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, signed on the title pages by authors Donald F. Glut and James Kahn respectively. Though credited to screenwriter and director George Lucas, veteran sci! author Alan Dean Foster wrote the novelization of Star Wars based on Lucas' script, for a "at fee of $5000. The following year Foster published his sequel, Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978), which Lucas commissioned for the purpose of being !lmed as a low-budget sequel in the event that Star Wars did not do well at the box o$ce. Needless to say, the movie's spectacular success led to the big-budget sequel The Empire Strikes Back, scripted by Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett and directed by Irvin Kershner; Lucas picked his USC classmate Donald F. Glut to pen the novelization. Doctor and writer James Kahn wrote the novelization of the movie Poltergeist, which led to several more novelizations: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Goonies, and—most famously—Return of the Jedi. Star Wars !rst hardbound edition, released for the Del Rey Science Fiction Book Club with gutter code S27; preceded only by the paperback edition published in December, 1976, well in advance of the May 1977 movie premiere, and followed by the !rst trade edition of the next year). Empire and Return both book club editions as well, stated on the dust jackets' front "aps, with gutter codes K29 and N31 repsectively. Each volume with color stills from the movie productions. A !ne signed set, scarce and desirable thus.
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