Side Midnight Signed by Sheldon Sidney (2 results)

SIGNED by author on endpaper. Octavo, hardcover, VG in blue boards in good blue and white pictorial dj. Sidney Sheldon signature series. Prologue begins in Athens 1947. Sheldon was a novelist as well as a Tony, Emmy, and Oscar award winning screenwriter. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Bob Nemser (illustrator). First Edition. [good sound copy, a couple of teeny-tiny stains on the edges of the text block but otherwise unblemished; the jacket shows some surface wear, with a couple of tiny nicks and some dog-earing at the top of the spine]. SIGNED by the author (no inscription) on the front endpaper. Sheldon's second novel (following a long and successful career as a screenwriter), and the first full-blown example of what we might now think of as "a Sidney Sheldon novel": a "blockbuster of a novel [with] two beautiful but classically different heroines: Noelle, a daughter of the Marseille slums, grown into a sexually enchanting, international movie star, and Catherine, born in Chicago, adoring men, yet fearful of them, a true American innocent. It is the story too of Larry Douglas, a handsome, vibrant war hero, whom both heroines love, and Constantin Demiris, a magnificently portrayed Greek tycoon" -- OK, that's about enough of that. You know the deal: beautiful, lusty people playing out "a tale of romance, suspense and revenge" against an international backdrop. Made into a ghastly movie in 1977, with Marie-France Pisier (you remember her) and Susan Sarandon as the ladies, and the lifeless John Beck as the dashing fellow who inexplicably excites and enchants them both. (Sorry, even a potboiler novel didn't deserve THAT movie, which gives schlock a bad name.) Signed by Author.