Matheson, Richard
New York: The Viking Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0670162329 . A most attractive first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket. Rather scarce in this condition; Matheson's time travel romance of Richard Colier, who has been given 6 months to live by his doctors. Spending his final days in the famed Hotel del Coronado, he falls in love with actress Elise McKenna who performed in the hotel almost 100 years before. Bid Time Return, derived from Shakespeare's Richard II, "O call back yesterday, bid time return", was basis for the 1980 movie Somewhere in Time starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright and William H. Macy .