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Different Seasons

Stephen King

"IT'S ONLY NATURAL THAT THE MOVIES AND STEPHEN KING WOULD GO TOGETHER": FIRST EDITION OF DIFFERENT SEASONS, INSCRIBED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY STEPHEN KING

KING, Stephen. Different Seasons. New York: Viking, (1982). Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket. $2500.

First edition of King's collection of four novellas—"among his best written works"—featuring three stories later adapted to the screen (as The Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil and Stand by Me), boldly inscribed by him on the title page in the year of publication: "For Sue—with best, Stephen King. 11/18/82."

"It was only natural that the movies and Stephen King would get together… His writing is intensely cinematic" (Bill Warren). Different Seasons collects four novellas that are mostly "mainstream, psychological fiction" (Collings B4) and stand "among [King's] best written works" (Fantasy and Horror 6-197). Three have reached the silver screen: The Shawshank Redemption (1994, from "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption"), Apt Pupil (1998, from the story of the same title) and Stand by Me (1986, from "The Body"—"a seminal piece in King's canon," Collings). "You have to compare King to Twain, Poe—with a generous dash of Philip Roth and Will Rogers thrown in" (Los Angeles Times). Copyright page with "First published in 1982": no additional printings listed. Dust jacket with $16.95 price and date notation "0882" on front flap. Brooks A17.

Book with only faint rubbing to covers, bright dust jacket with only slight rubbing to extremities. A nearly fine copy.

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