No Way To Treat A Lady.

GOLDMAN, William.

Item Number: 114551

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964.

First edition of this early novel by the author of The Princess Bride. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William Goldman on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Appelbaum & Curtis, Inc.

Goldman wrote the original novel while experiencing writer's block, when writing Boys and Girls Together (published in 1964). He was inspired by an article about the Boston Strangler which suggested there might be two stranglers operating, and Goldman wondered what would happen if that were the case and they got jealous of each other. (In the film adaptation, there is only one strangler; Goldman hated this change.) He says as he walked to his office, "the book simply jumped into my head. Start to finish. The whole thing... And I remember getting to my office and frantically scribbling down an enormous number of chapters." It was made into the 1968 film directed by Jack Smight, with a screenplay by John Gay[5]. The film starred Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal and Eileen Heckart.