55 “God Loves To Make A Man Break A Vow” 71KING, Stephen. Firestarter. New York, 1980. Octavo, original half red cloth, dust jacket. $5800 First trade edition of this horror novel about government intrusion and pyrokinesis, boldly inscribed: “To Bev— Be well, Stephen King 4/22/98.” “I like to scare people,” said Stephen King. “I like to go for the jugular” (New York Times). “Rooted in the topical realities of the notorious CIA drug experiments… Firestarter has the nitty-gritty reality we’ve come to expect of King,” fulfilling “John D. MacDonald’s prediction that King would get away from writing books about ‘spooks and spells and slitherings in the cellar” (Leiber in Fear Itself, 111-12). Preceded only by a signed limited edition published in the same year. Light marginal staining to a few leaves, minor wear to binding; slightly toned dust jacket with three taped repairs. A very good signed copy. “She Thought That Things Could Not Get Worse... But They Always Can, And Often Do” 72KING, Stephen. Doctor Sleep. Baltimore, 2013. Thick octavo, original cloth, dust jacket, clamshell box. $6800 Signed limited first edition, issued the same year as the trade edition, of King’s terrifying sequel to The Shining, one of 750 copies signed by King, dust jacket designer Vincent Chong, and illustrator Erin Wells, one of 100 copies with an additional remarque signed by Chong and also with a signed remarque print by artist Glenn Chadbourne. In Doctor Sleep, which King calls a return to “keepthe-lights-on horror,” he continues the story of Danny, “the little boy with psycho-intuitive powers in King’s famous 1977 novel, The Shining… King is a pro: by the end of this book your fingers will be mere stubs of their former selves, and you will be looking askance at the people in the supermarket line, because if they turn around they might have metallic eyes...” (New York Times). This deluxe illustrated edition includes features six full-page color illustrations (two folding), 19 full-page and several in-text black-and-white illustrations by Wells. A fine copy in a nearly fine clamshell box.
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