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1850rif. 62870London, Virtue, um 1850. Darstellung ca. 11 x 8,5 cm, Blatt ca. 25,5 x 17,5 cm. 1 Blatt, verso weiß.
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. 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
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. 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. 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
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. GOR003211180Hardback. Very Good. hardcover
2007rif. ANAIS-0340951397Hodder Paperback 2007-01-01. paperback. Good. 11.2x17.6x3.4. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Hodder Paperback paperback
1999rif. mbb006521London: Hodder and Stoughton 1999. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very Good. 220x140x20mm. 220x140x20mm386g . . Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1999. First UK Edition. 1st Printing. . Pp216. True First Edition Precedes American First Edition. Blue cloth hard boards. Gilt lettering to spine. In original dust jacket. Unclipped. Head and foot of spine rolled. Slight crinkling to pages 53-58. Sporadic corner fold marks. Slightest of tilts. Jacket has closed tear. . . . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$11.60 1st Printing Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1983rif. FG26.009Hodder 1983. 1st UK edition. It was love at first sight. From the moment seventeen-year-old Arnie Cunningham saw Christine he knew he would do anything to possess her. Hardcover. fine hardcover copy in a near fineGerald Grace dustwrapper. Spine lightly sun kissed not price clipped. Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel 1984. Hodder 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
2012rif. FD26.041Hodder & Stoughton 2012. 1st edition. limited 700 copy. The Dark Tower The Wind Through the Keyhole is both a stand-alone novel and a wonderful introduction to the series. It is an enchanting Russian doll of a novel a story within a story within a story. Hardcover. fine hardcover copy in a fine Jae Lee dustwrapper in a fine slipcase. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
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
2005rif. FD17.424Hard Case Crime 2005. 1st edition. On an island off the coast of Maine a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. Paperback. fine paperback. Hard Case Crime paperback
rif. 0450054799.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2019rif. 2-2367628343Audiolib 2019. Audio CD. New. French language. 7.32x5.35x0.39 inches. Audiolib unknown
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