LOVE STORY, this iconic book defined a generation. Erich Segal's novel will grab you, hold you, and stay with you forever!!

Collector's 1970 vintage hardcover book with original color pictorial dust jacket – Love Story by Erich Segal. Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers, New York, Copyright, 1970. NO isbn. Not ex-library. Not later printing with isbn numbers.

Wonderful, tumultuous, heartfelt story of Oliver Barrett IV and Jenny Cavilleri. Story of rich Harvard jock and a wisecracking Radcliffe music major who have nothing in common but love, and everything else to share but time. The movie Love Story starring Ryan O' Neal and Ali MacGraw received seven Academy Award nominations, including best screenplay, and original score. Over 40 weeks on N.Y. Times best seller list. Erich Segal passed away in 2010.

PLOT: Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law. Jenny Cavilleri, sharp-tongued, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe. Opposites, Oliver and Jenny are kindred spirits from vastly different worlds. Falling deeply and powerfully, their attraction to one another defies everything they have ever believed, and explore a love that must end too soon.

Octavo hardcover, VIBRANT color pictorial DJ, bright green boards, green spine lettering, 125pp. BCE. Binding tight. Fine vintage condition. Pages fine/bright/clean/deckled edges. Cover fine/bright/clean/minimal shelfwear. DJ very good+/bright/clean overall/light yellowing-spine sunned/front light shelfwear-some light foxing/back mostly bottom foxing.

Funny and flip, sad and poignant novel. Do not pass up this must have collector's gem; will make a FABULOUS gift!!