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2013réf. 1303682013. First Edition. Signed. KING Stephen. Joyland. London: Hard Case Crime 2013. Octavo original black paper original dust jacket. $3500.Limited signed first edition number 307 of 724 numbered copies illustrated by Robert McGinnis and signed by King on the limitation page.Set at an amusement park in North Carolina in 1973 ""Joyland is a far gentler deeper more thoughtful book than the one it masquerades as. More a coming-of-age mystery than a horror-filled thriller it's closer to the tone of King's short story 'The Body'on which the film Stand By Me is basedthan it is to the author's real forays into horror and all the more intriguing for it"" Guardian. One of three limited editions issued in the same year the other two a signed lettered edition limited to 26 copies and a gift unsigned edition limited to 1500 copies. Illustrated with a front-cover painting and nine full-page pencil drawings by Robert McGinnisa master of pulp artand with a map of the Joyland amusement park created by Susan Hunt Yule especially for the hardcover editions. Fine condition. hardcover
2013réf. 1308142013. First Edition. Signed. KING Stephen. Doctor Sleep. Baltimore: Cemetery Dance 2013. Thick octavo original white laminated cloth original dust jacket. Housed in original white laminated cloth clamshell box. $6800.Signed limited first edition issued the same year as the Scribner's trade edition of King's terrifying sequel to The Shining number 112 of 750 copies signed by King dust jacket designer Vincent Chong and illustrator Erin Wells on the limitation page one of 100 copies with an additional remarque signed by Chong and also with a signed remarque print by artist Glenn Chadbourne. This deluxe illustrated edition includes features six full-page color illustrations two folding 19 full-page and several in-text black-and-white illustrations by Wells.In Doctor Sleep which King calls a return to ""keep-the-lights-on horror"" he continues the story of Danny ""the little boy with psycho-intuitive powers in King's famous 1977 novel The Shining King is a pro: by the end of this book your fingers will be mere stubs of their former selves and you will be looking askance at the people in the supermarket line because if they turn around they might have metallic eyes. King's inventiveness and skill show no signs of slacking: Doctor Sleep has all the virtues of his best work"" New York Times. The novel won a 2013 Bram Stoker Award and was adapted for a 2019 film directed by Mike Flanagan. A fine copy in a nearly fine clamshell box. hardcover