COLLECTABLE FICTION –

First Edition UK. Noticeably scarcer than its US counterpart, a copy in a complete dustwrapper. Author’s first novel and second book. Inspired by such real-life incidents as the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 and based on meticulously researched data about shark behaviour, Benchley’s classic suspense thriller of shark versus man, has sold over 20 million copies since publication. Co-adapted by the author who also makes a cameo appearance as a reporter into the 1975, Oscar-winning, blockbuster film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss. “A tightly written, tautly paced study of terror [that] makes us tingle.” -Washington Post.

“A girl swims lazily in the cool midnight sea – the shark, attracted by the movement, glides unerringly onto its prey; and the girl is next seen as a hideously mangled carcass int eh flotsam left by the receding tide: so begins the terror which will reign in Amity, a holiday resort on Long Island which is just preparing for another successful summer season.”

Near Fine in Very Good+ Dustjacket. No markings and thus in very “collectable” condition. SCARCE in this condition.

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