Chilly Scenes of Winter by BEATTIE, Ann - 1976

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine with silver lettering and light grey paper over boards, dust jacket. 280pp. Very good/very good. Faintest of binding and jacket edgewear. Wonderfully tight and attractive first edition of Beattie's first novel. A romantic comedy film version titled "Head Over Heels" was released in 1979 (re-released in 1982 with different ending and book's title), and this unusual copy bears signatures of five of the cast members tipped to the front flyleaf (recto and verso), each on a heavy stock 5" X 3" card and all fine. Front flyleaf: JOHN HEARD, who plays "Charles" (1946-2017,) in black ballpoint, who adds "Thank you / and Good Luck, / Your Pal"; KENNETH McMILLAN, who plays "Pete" (1932-89), in blue fineline, who adds "Aug 1, 1982." Front flyleaf verso: MARK METCALF, who plays "Ox" (born 1946), in blue ballpoint, who adds "28 July '86"; PETE RIEGERT, who plays "Sam" (born 1947), in black fineline, who adds "11/22/81"; and GRIFFIN DUNNE, who plays "Dr. Mark" (born 1955), in blue ballpoint, who adds "5/16/89." (Laid in are the perfect bookmarks: These signatures' five original transmittal envelopes.) A lovely, extra-illustrated first edition of this uncommon title.