"WHEN MEN DO IT IN WARTIME, THEY GIVE THEM MEDALS, HE THOUGHT": STEPHEN KING'S THE DEAD ZONE, FIRST EDITION
KING, Stephen. The Dead Zone. New York: Viking, (1979). Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $600.
First edition of King's provocative political thriller.
"Steeped in the political consciousness of post-Vietnam 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.
Book fine, dust jacket very nearly so.