ALIEN, THE NOVELIZATION, SIGNED BY ALAN DEAN FOSTER
FOSTER, Alan Dean. Alien. (New York): Warner Books, (1979). Octavo, original blue boards, original dust jacket. $1500.
First hardcover edition (this Science Fiction Book Club edition preceded the trade edition), signed on the title page by Alan Dean Foster.
Veteran scifi author Alan Dean Foster wrote this novelization based on "the screenplay by a whole bunch of people but mostly Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Schusett, who originated the scary thing in the first place." The dust jacket bears the original cover art of D.K. Stone. First hardbound edition, preceding the trade edition, preceded by the paperback edition. With letter code on page 184 of "J 27," indicating print date of August, 1979.
Book in near-fine condition, in a very good, rubbed dust jacket with minor toning and two short edge tears. A nice signed copy, uncommon thus.