– 41 – A u g u s t 2 0 2 2 Signed By Stephen King 49. KING, Stephen. The Shining. Garden City, 1977. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $7800. First edition of King’s third novel, a “masterwork, a bold product of an original vision,” signed by Stephen King. Inspired by Poe’s short story “The Masque of the Red Death,” King’s first hardcover bestseller is “his consummate ghostly tale” about “the haunted house to end all haunted houses” (Underwood & Miller, 174, 184). “The fact is that The Shining is a masterwork, a bold product of an original vision, a novel of astonishing passion, urgency, tenderness, understanding, and invention… In its uniting of an almost bruising literary power, a deep sensitivity to individual experience, and its operatic convictions, it is a very significant work of art” (Peter Straub). Made into the 1980 movie directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Jack Nicolson and Shelley Duvall. First Edition with data code “R49” at inner margin of page 447. Advance review copy containing publisher’s inkstamp: “With the compliments of Doubleday & Company, Inc.” Book fine, dust jacket near-fine with only slightest soiling, light rubbing to extremities, and several tape repairs to verso. A desirable signed copy. Signed Limited First Edition Of The Eyes Of The Dragon, One Of 1000 Copies Signed By Stephen King 50. KING, Stephen. The Eyes of the Dragon. Bangor, Maine, 1984. Folio, original half black cloth, original slipcase. $3500. Signed limited first edition of this fantasy novel originally written for children, one of 1000 copies (out of a total limited edition of 1250 copies) signed by King. In this departure from his more characteristic horror fare, King “has used the full authority of his talent as a yarn spinner to create the atmosphere of a made-up bedtime story… From the book’s first words—‘Once, in a kingdom called Delain’—we know that we must suspend our disbelief just as completely as if we were listening to a tale by Andersen or Grimm” (New York Times). “Well-crafted and smoothly told” (Fantasy and Horror 7-209). With 19 detailed, black-and-white illustrations, several full-page, by Kenneth R. Linkhaüser. Precedes the first trade edition (1987). A fine signed copy.
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