Jaws
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Overview:
- Title: Jaws
- Author: Peter Benchley
- Year: 1974
- ISBN-10: 0385047711
- Publisher: Doubleday & Company
- Price: $6.95
- Pages: 311
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Jaws
- Notes:
- "First Edition", ISBN & LCCN on copyright page.
- "Books by Peter Benchley" (on page prior to title page) ends with "Jaws (1973)", and PV1 has printing code "O44" (late October 1973) on page 311. But copyright page has "Copyright (c) 1974", so assume published in January of 1974. Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series: "Jaws . By Peter Benchley . 311 p . © Peter Benchley ; 17 Jan74".
- $6.95 price on jacket front flap. No credit for jacket art on jacket or in book.
- Cover artist from "Paperbacks from Hell" (Grady Hendrix, 2017)
- There is an illustration of a shark on title page between the title and the author's name; FantLab shows a photo of the book's spine which has the same illustration but between the author's name and the title.