March 2021 Catalogue

30 I m a g i n e d W o r l d s E a r l y M a r c h 2 0 2 1 “The Man In Black Fled Across The Desert, And The Gunslinger Followed” 28. KING, Stephen. The Dark Tower. West Kingston, Rhode Island and Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, 1982-2012. Together, thirteen volumes. Octavo, original cloth, dust jackets, slipcases. $28,000. Click for more info Signed limited first editions, issued simultaneously with the first trade editions, of all seven titles in Stephen King’s masterful Dark Tower series, as well as the signed limited deluxe first editions of the companion volumes The Little Sisters of Eluria and The Wind Through the Keyhole and the English Collector’s Edition of The Wind Through the Keyhole, each book with full-page color illustrations and each signed by King and the illustrator. These novels, the work of a lifetime, are “different in tone frommost of Stephen King’s work—and perhaps more demandingly inventive than usual—these have an undeniable mythic charge” (Clute & Nichols, 666). “Each of the novels is a mélange of motifs and ideas borrowed from horror, fantasy, Western and science fiction… 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 Tales… [King indulges] some of his most fanciful and extravagant horrors” ( Fantasy and Horror 6-194). Fine condition. A wonderful set, with a total of ten Stephen King signatures. “A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.”