25 LITERATURE “Her Whole Life Had Been A Long And Easy Dream To Lull Her Helplessly Into This Waking Nightmare” 32KING, Stephen. The Shining. Garden City, 1977. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $4000 First edition of King’s third novel, a “masterwork, a bold product of an original vision.” 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). Basis for the 1980 movie directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Jack Nicolson and Shelley Duvall; later made into a 1997 TV mini-series starring Steven Weber and Rebecca De Mornay, with a cameo appearance by King himself. Book in fine condition; dust jacket about-fine, back panel with inked date in one corner, spine with slight toning and traces of wear to foot. An unusually nice copy. “When Men Do It In Wartime, They Give Them Medals, He Thought” 33KING, Stephen. The Dead Zone. New York, 1979. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $3200 First edition of King’s provocative political thriller, inscribed and signed by King, “For Jake—Good wishes, Stephen King 8/22/80.” “Steeped in the political consciousness of postVietnam America, The Dead Zone is a riff on the old axiom that evil thrives when good men do nothing” (Fantasy and Horror 6-195). Basis for the 1983 film by director David Cronenberg, starring Christopher Walken, and for the long-running television series starring Anthony Michael Hall. Viking officially released this work in August 1979. First printing, with “First published in 1979 by The Viking Press” and no additional printings on the copyright page. Brooks A8.1. Underwood & Miller 8a. Anatomy of Wonder II:600. Horror Literature 4-130. A fine inscribed copy.
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