Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Signed by Steven Spielberg)

New York: Delacorte Press, 1977. Boards. Very Good +/Near Fine. SIGNED IN A STRONG, FIRM HAND BY STEVEN SPIELBERG on the dustjacket's rear panel. A clean, unsmudged, completely legible example of this surprisingly uncommon signature --and on a copy to boot of his own novelization of one of his early triumphs. A tight, solid copy of the 1977 Book Club edition, with very light foxing along the fore-edge. And in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket, with its full-page rear photo of Spielberg (on which he signed his name). Octavo, Spielberg's wonderful follow-up to "Jaws" and predecessor by 5 years to "E.T.