Peter Benchley ate my Bookcase!

Jaws was my first bite.

Yep.

 I used to love collecting hardback modern movie tie-ins.

My only rule was that they needed to have the dustjacket.

There is something essentially satisfying about a hardback novel with its colour jacket in place.

Although I haven't read them all here are some of my fave finds.

Peter Benchley's Jaws. 

His great shark tale set on Amity Island sparked my interest in TV and film hard-backs. Book critics said it was poorly written, clichéd, but I adored it. 

Published in February 1974, the rest as they say, is just chum.

The first edition looked like this, which I don't have.

I prefer my later copy's cover below.

Do you own the book? 

Other bites into the hardback tie-in genre:

Callan Russian Roulette, not read. Watched the TV series with Edward Wooodwoodward as a kid. I remember a lightbulb?

Street Hawk, superbike TV series I never saw. You? [this is a paperback]

Firefox, not read. A Clint Eastwood superjet movie.

Marathan Man. Read. Grimaced.

Stars Dustin and the dentist as well as Roy Scheider who starred in Jaws.

Maybe this should have been called Gums.

Have you got any hardback or paperback movie ti-ins?