SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF FIRESTARTER, ONE OF 725 COPIES SIGNED AND DATED BY STEPHEN KING FOR COLLECTORS
KING, Stephen. Firestarter. Huntington Woods, Michigan: Phantasia, 1980. Octavo, original navy paper boards, marbled endpapers, original dust jacket, original slipcase.
Signed limited first edition of this horror novel about government intrusion and pyrokinetics, number 343 of 725 copies signed by Stephen King and dated "July 6, 1980."
"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). Published for collectors by special arrangement with the Viking Press, publisher of the first trade edition. Basis for the 1984 film starring Drew Barrymore. Underwood & Miller, 254. Horror Literature 4-131.
A fine signed copy.