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1981rif. FC24.042Book Club Associate 1981. 1st BC edition. His legendary third novel and almost imposible to find as a UK 1st this is a BC edition but hell you'd pay over £750 for the 1st and over £350 for an ex-lib copy. Hardcover. fine hardcover copy in a near fine dustwrapper. Book Club Associate hardcover
rif. 15035Hodder & Stoughton 2009 1st UK. Hardcover. New. First Edition/First Printing. Mint slipcased edition still shrink wrapped as issued by the publisher. Number 386 of a 500 copy release that includes the slipcase coloured endpapers a letter from King with his facsimile signature and a DVD with a graphic animation film of 'N.' one of the short stories from the book. Mint. With this book is a Large 10" x 8" black and white photograph of the author hand-signed in silver ink. He was in the UK for a book signing tour and I found out he was staying at the Dorchester Hotel. I presented this photograph to him as he left the hotel and he graciously signed it and also a small card see Dolores Claiborne. Hodder & Stoughton 2009 (1st UK) hardcover
1996rif. BN337888Weltbild Verlag 1996. 1996. Todesmarsch Hardcover Todesmarsch Hardcover Bachman Richard Weltbild Verlag hardcover
2013rif. FB26.069Hodder & Stoughton 2013. 1st edition. Limiited to 750 copies. On highways across America a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless mostly old lots of polyester and married to their RVs. Hardcover. fine hardcover copy pictorial boards in a fine slipcase. Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel 2013 Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel 2014. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
rif. 60166Donald M. Grant Publisher Hampton Falls 1991 first edition In-8 23 cm 512pp. illustr. planches en couleurs hors-texte reliure cart. de l'editeur avec jaquette Nb-0336 unknown
1991rif. biblio342Borderlands Press Baltimore 1991. Hard Cover. Book Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. One of 500 numbered copies in a signed limited edition. As new book dust jacket and matching slipcase. Signed by Stephen King and 31 other contributors. Dustjacket protected in removable Mylar plastic cover. Borderlands Press hardcover
rif. 1296421991. First Edition. Signed. KING Stephen. Lord John Signatures. Northridge California: Lord John Press 1991. Oblong octavo original dark blue cloth gilt autograph-print endpapers. $1100.First edition of an unusual autograph book number 275 of 400 copies signed by Stephen King and dozens of popular writers.This compilation of authors' photographs accompanied by their original signatures is signed by Norman Mailer Eudora Welty John Updike Gerald Ford Ursula K. Le Guin Ray Bradbury and John Barth among many others. It opens with an intriguing essay on collecting autographs and authorial memorabilia written by Stephen King and signed by him and following the section of author's autographs closes with a section of facsimiles of autographs and autographed objects from noted literati presidents and othersÑincluding a reproduction of a page from King's manuscript for the story ""Secret Window Secret Garden."" The William Everson and Richard Yates signatures are in facsimile as in all copies. Brooks C288.1. Without publisher's slipcase. Contents and binding in fine condition. hardcover
rif. Biblio760Cemetery Dance Publications Baltimore 2019. Jana Heidersdorf illustrator. Hardcover Signed Limited Edition New in dust jacket and traycase 684 pp. Cover artwork by: Jana Heidersdorf. This is one of 850 numbered copies signed by Stephen King Owen King and Jana Heidersdorf. Hardcover deluxe SIGNED edition New in dust jacket and traycase. Additional postage will apply due to weight and size. Cemetery Dance Publications hardcover
rif. 9716New Hampshire USA: Donald M. Grant 2004. A First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine and appears unread in a fine unclipped dust jacket. This is a signed limited edition number 1290 of 1400 printed signed by both Stephen King and Darrel Anderson the artist. Donald M. Grant hardcover
rif. 1296421991. First Edition. Signed. KING Stephen. Lord John Signatures. Northridge California: Lord John Press 1991. Oblong octavo original dark blue cloth gilt autograph-print endpapers. $1100.First edition of an unusual autograph book number 275 of 400 copies signed by Stephen King and dozens of popular writers.This compilation of authors' photographs accompanied by their original signatures is signed by Norman Mailer Eudora Welty John Updike Gerald Ford Ursula K. Le Guin Ray Bradbury and John Barth among many others. It opens with an intriguing essay on collecting autographs and authorial memorabilia written by Stephen King and signed by him and following the section of author's autographs closes with a section of facsimiles of autographs and autographed objects from noted literati presidents and othersÑincluding a reproduction of a page from King's manuscript for the story ""Secret Window Secret Garden."" The William Everson and Richard Yates signatures are in facsimile as in all copies. Brooks C288.1. Without publisher's slipcase. Contents and binding in fine condition. hardcover books
1977rif. 9796New York: Doubleday 1977. A First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good or Better. Near fine in a very good or better unclipped $8.95 dust jacket. First edition statement on copyright page and code of R49 present in the gutter of page 447. Boards have light edge wear and front bottom corner is bumped. Small smudge on bottom of text block. Jacket has numerous tiny chips at spine ends and corners. Volume without remainder spray on bottom text block. Doubleday hardcover
rif. 1304241989. First Edition. Signed. KING Stephen. The Dark Half. New York: Viking 1989. Octavo original half black cloth original dust jacket. $2500.First American edition issued only days after the English edition of King's ""wonderfully frightening"" novel inscribed on the title page by him: ""For HarryÑwith best wishesÑStephen King 6/14/95.""Stephen King's ""Dark Half is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his creative genius the vampire within him the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes"" New York Times. King's story of a writer haunted by his own pseudonym is ""wondrously frighteningÉ among the best of his voluminous work"" Publisher's Weekly. Adapted to the screen in 1993 by director George Romero. First American edition: issued almost immediately after the English edition. Fine condition. hardcover
rif. 1304241989. First Edition. Signed. KING Stephen. The Dark Half. New York: Viking 1989. Octavo original half black cloth original dust jacket. $2500.First American edition issued only days after the English edition of King's ""wonderfully frightening"" novel inscribed on the title page by him: ""For HarryÑwith best wishesÑStephen King 6/14/95.""Stephen King's ""Dark Half is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his creative genius the vampire within him the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes"" New York Times. King's story of a writer haunted by his own pseudonym is ""wondrously frighteningÉ among the best of his voluminous work"" Publisher's Weekly. Adapted to the screen in 1993 by director George Romero. First American edition: issued almost immediately after the English edition. Fine condition. hardcover books
rif. 1309842008. First Edition. KING Stephen. The Little Sisters of Eluria. Hampton Falls New Hampshire: Donald M. Grant 2008. Quarto original full snakeskin-textured leatherette original dust jacket original full snakeskin-textured leatherette clamshell box with foil-stamped design. $2800.Limited deluxe first edition number 280 of 1250 copies of this companion volume to Stephen King's masterful Dark Tower series with full-page color illustrations by Michael Whelan signed by King and Whelan.""The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed."" With those wordsÑinspired by Robert Browning's Childe Roland and Sergio Leone's film The Good the Bad and the Ugly and typed on an old Underwood in 1970ÑKing struck the initial notes of a saga 34 years in the completion. ""Many of my fictions"" King reflected ""refer back to Roland's world and Roland's storyÉ My idea was to use the Dark Tower stories as a kind of summation a way of unifying as many of my previous stories as possibleÉ"" These novels the work of a lifetime are ""different in tone from most of Stephen King's workÑand perhaps more demandingly inventive than usualÑthese have an undeniable mythic charge"" Clute & Nichols 666. ""Each of the novels is a mlange of motifs and ideas borrowed from horror fantasy Western and science fictionÉ King's narrative strategy and plot mechanics for the individual installments of the series show a wide variety of influences ranging from L. Frank Baum's Oz novels to Chaucer's Canterbury TalesÉ King indulges some of his most fanciful and extravagant horrors"" Fantasy and Horror 6-194. The later addition of The Little Sisters of Eluria 2004 occurs in the same universe although the novella precedes the rest of the stories in the timeline and was meant to provide ""a clearer start and a slightly easier entry into Roland's worldÉ that more effectively foreshadowed coming events."" This volume also contains King's revised and expanded version of The Gunslinger the first book in the epic series. Illustrated with dramatic full-page color plates by Michael Whelan. Issued simultaneously with the first trade edition and with a limited artist's edition of 4000 copies signed only by Whelan. Brooks A18 & B155. Fine condition. hardcover
rif. 1309842008. First Edition. KING Stephen. The Little Sisters of Eluria. Hampton Falls New Hampshire: Donald M. Grant 2008. Quarto original full snakeskin-textured leatherette original dust jacket original full snakeskin-textured leatherette clamshell box with foil-stamped design. $2800.Limited deluxe first edition number 280 of 1250 copies of this companion volume to Stephen King's masterful Dark Tower series with full-page color illustrations by Michael Whelan signed by King and Whelan.""The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed."" With those wordsÑinspired by Robert Browning's Childe Roland and Sergio Leone's film The Good the Bad and the Ugly and typed on an old Underwood in 1970ÑKing struck the initial notes of a saga 34 years in the completion. ""Many of my fictions"" King reflected ""refer back to Roland's world and Roland's storyÉ My idea was to use the Dark Tower stories as a kind of summation a way of unifying as many of my previous stories as possibleÉ"" These novels the work of a lifetime are ""different in tone from most of Stephen King's workÑand perhaps more demandingly inventive than usualÑthese have an undeniable mythic charge"" Clute & Nichols 666. ""Each of the novels is a mlange of motifs and ideas borrowed from horror fantasy Western and science fictionÉ King's narrative strategy and plot mechanics for the individual installments of the series show a wide variety of influences ranging from L. Frank Baum's Oz novels to Chaucer's Canterbury TalesÉ King indulges some of his most fanciful and extravagant horrors"" Fantasy and Horror 6-194. The later addition of The Little Sisters of Eluria 2004 occurs in the same universe although the novella precedes the rest of the stories in the timeline and was meant to provide ""a clearer start and a slightly easier entry into Roland's worldÉ that more effectively foreshadowed coming events."" This volume also contains King's revised and expanded version of The Gunslinger the first book in the epic series. Illustrated with dramatic full-page color plates by Michael Whelan. Issued simultaneously with the first trade edition and with a limited artist's edition of 4000 copies signed only by Whelan. Brooks A18 & B155. Fine condition. hardcover books
rif. 1296311981. First Edition. Signed. KING Stephen. Danse Macabre. New York: Everest House 1981. Octavo original red paper boards original dust jacket. $3200.True first edition preceding the limited edition of ""perhaps the best personal account yet written of the broad appeal of the horror genre"" inscribed by Stephen King to author educator and political scientist Arnold Rogow: ""For Arnold RogowÑBest Stephen King 1/15/82.""King's survey of horror in literature films and television includes incisive discussions of such subjects as Bram Stoker's Dracula Tod Browning's Freaks the work of Ray Bradbury The Exorcist Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Amityville Horror Rod Serling's Twilight Zone flying saucer films of the 1950s and more. King also includes autobiographical sketches of his initiation into horror and comments about his own bestselling books and their place within the horror tradition. In his opening he writes: ""For me the terrorÑthe real terrorÉ began on an afternoon in October of 1957. I had just turned ten. And as was only fitting I was in a movie theater."" Stephen King cites Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James's The Turn of the Screw as ""the only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years."" It is likely that King's assessment contributed to the resurgence of interest in Shirley Jackson's fiction in recent years. To critics Danse Macabre is ""an important and readable volume and perhaps the best personal account yet written of the broad appeal of the horror genre"" Fantasy and Horror 11-42; the work won the 1982 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book. With numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations. First edition with code ""RRD281"" on copyright page preceding the limited edition of 265 copies. Brooks A12. Collings D1. Ketchum Levack & Levin 6. Book in fine condition in a near-fine dust jacket with minimal edge wear. A bright fresh inscribed copy. hardcover
rif. 1296311981. First Edition. Signed. KING Stephen. Danse Macabre. New York: Everest House 1981. Octavo original red paper boards original dust jacket. $3200.True first edition preceding the limited edition of ""perhaps the best personal account yet written of the broad appeal of the horror genre"" inscribed by Stephen King to author educator and political scientist Arnold Rogow: ""For Arnold RogowÑBest Stephen King 1/15/82.""King's survey of horror in literature films and television includes incisive discussions of such subjects as Bram Stoker's Dracula Tod Browning's Freaks the work of Ray Bradbury The Exorcist Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Amityville Horror Rod Serling's Twilight Zone flying saucer films of the 1950s and more. King also includes autobiographical sketches of his initiation into horror and comments about his own bestselling books and their place within the horror tradition. In his opening he writes: ""For me the terrorÑthe real terrorÉ began on an afternoon in October of 1957. I had just turned ten. And as was only fitting I was in a movie theater."" Stephen King cites Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James's The Turn of the Screw as ""the only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years."" It is likely that King's assessment contributed to the resurgence of interest in Shirley Jackson's fiction in recent years. To critics Danse Macabre is ""an important and readable volume and perhaps the best personal account yet written of the broad appeal of the horror genre"" Fantasy and Horror 11-42; the work won the 1982 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book. With numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations. First edition with code ""RRD281"" on copyright page preceding the limited edition of 265 copies. Brooks A12. Collings D1. Ketchum Levack & Levin 6. Book in fine condition in a near-fine dust jacket with minimal edge wear. A bright fresh inscribed copy. hardcover books
rif. 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'Ñon which the film Stand By Me is basedÑthan 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 McGinnisÑa master of pulp artÑand with a map of the Joyland amusement park created by Susan Hunt Yule especially for the hardcover editions. Fine condition. hardcover
rif. 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'Ñon which the film Stand By Me is basedÑthan 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 McGinnisÑa master of pulp artÑand with a map of the Joyland amusement park created by Susan Hunt Yule especially for the hardcover editions. Fine condition. hardcover books
rif. 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 ShiningÉ 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
rif. 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 ShiningÉ 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 books