"THE FORCE IS WITH YOU, YOUNG SKYWALKER… BUT YOU ARE NOT A JEDI YET": SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

(LUCAS, George) GLUT, Donald F. Star Wars. The Empire Strikes Back. New York: Del Rey, (1980). Octavo, original blue paper boards, original dust jacket. $1250.

First hardcover edition of the novelization of Empire Strikes Back, signed on the title page by author Donald F. Glut.

George Lucas chose his USC classmate Donald F. Glut, an accomplished comic writer and television screenwriter, to pen the novelization of the big-budget Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back, scripted by Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett and directed by Irvin Kershner. Glut was forced to work with limited access to information during the film's production, resulting in a handful of notable differences between the book and the movie—including Yoda's skin being described as blue rather than green. First hardbound edition, released for the Del Rey Science Fiction Book Club with gutter code K29; preceded by a paperback edition.

Book in near-fine condition, in a very good dust jacket with sticker residue at spine foot and small spots of rubbing. Uncommon signed.