"I AM A JEDI, AS MY FATHER WAS BEFORE ME": INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

(KAHN, James) LUCAS, George. Star Wars. Return of the Jedi. New York: Del Rey, 1983. Octavo, original red paper boards, original dust jacket. $1250.

True first hardbound edition of the novelization of Return of the Jedi, inscribed on the title page by author James Kahn, with "May the Force be with you! Always!!" beneath his signature.

Doctor and author 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. His novelization of the third movie in the original Star Wars trilogy, based on the screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas, became the bestselling novel of 1983. First hardbound edition, released for the Del Rey Science Fiction Book Club with gutter code N31; preceded only by the paperback edition. Illustrated with eight pages of color stills from the movie production.

Book in fine condition, in an extremely good dust jacket with minor rubbing. A nice copy, uncommon signed.