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S i g n e d B y S t e p h e n K i n g 36 Fine New Acquisitions H alloween 2020 “You’re Dead, George. You Just Don’t Have The Sense To Lie Down.” 34. KING, Stephen. The Dark Half. New York, 1989. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $1350. Click for more info First American edition, issued only days after the English edition, of King’s “wonderfully frightening” novel, inscribed: “To T— With best wishes, Stephen King 3/21/92.” 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 frightening… among the best of his voluminous work” ( Publishers Weekly ). First American edition: issued almost immediately after the English edition. Front free endpaper with former owner name inked out, minor restoration. A near-fine inscribed copy.