Its content was “an abundance of sketches and paintings that recreate the imaginative process that went into the making of Star Wars,” as Titelman wrote in her brief foreword. Edited by Titleman, The Art of Star Wars was a 175-page tome full of artwork, photographs, and information from concept to completion of the film.

The Sketchbook would foreshadow an even more comprehensive volume that Lucasfilm published with Ballantine Books in 1979. At the time, the company was developing a series of non-fiction books that peeled back the curtain on the making of George Lucas’ space fantasy, including The Star Wars Sketchbook from 1977, which compiled line-drawings by concept artist and visual effects art director Joe Johnston. Hired not long before the release of Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), she oversaw the company’s publishing efforts among other responsibilities from Lucasfilm’s southern California offices. One of Lucasfilm’s earliest corporate employees was Carol Titelman (neé Wikarska).

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