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Stephen King Black House Signed Limited Edition leather bound

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Publisher: Donald M. Grant Publishers
Publication Date: 2002
Edition: Signed Limited First Edition

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Product Code: SK150

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An ideal gift for the Stephen King collector of rare books, limited to 1520 signed & numbered copies.

Personally hand signed by Stephen King, Peter Straub, and the artist Rick Berry.

Stephen King & Peter Straub
"Black House"
Donald M. Grant Publisher Inc 2002
Signed Limited First Edition
As New Condition - Sealed

Donald M. Grant Publisher Inc 2002, Stephen King & Peter Straub, "Black House", Signed Limited First Edition. One of only 1520 Copies. This luxury edition is bound in full leather and comes housed in a black leather wrap-around traycase with green velvet interior. Published in 2002 by Donald M Grant Publication, stated first edition on the copyright page. Lavishly illustrated through out by Rick Berry. The book is signed on the limitation page by Stephen King, Peter Straub & artist Rick Berry.

Condition
As New condition. Unread. Never removed from its original shrink-wrap from the publisher.

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Today's literature is plagued by sequelitis; plagued because many of the offspring are abominations. But here's a marvelous exception. Seventeen years after King and Straub's first collaboration, The Talisman, comes an immensely satisfying follow-up, a brilliant and challenging dark fantasy that fans of both authors are going to love. Page by page, the novel reads as equal parts King and Straub, with the Maine master's exuberance and penchant for excess restrained by Straub's generally more elegant (though no more potent) approach. But the book, far more than its predecessor, is set explicitly in the King universe, with particular ties to the Dark Tower series.

Its primary hero is The Talisman's Jack Sawyer, now retired from the LAPD and living with no memory of his otherwordly Talisman exploits, alone in French Landing, Wisconsin a town surveyed by the authors in an unusual third-person plural narration that buoys the book throughout. Terror stalks French Landing in the form of the Fisherman, who's been snatching, killing and eating the town's children. We know that the Fisherman is a resident of the town's elderly care facility, but Jack doesn't; when yet another child, Ty Marshall, is taken, Jack enters the hunt for the killer and the boy. He's joined by an array of locals, notably a gang of philosopher bikers and blind Henry Leyden, a 50-something cool cat whom every reader will adore. Jack is going to need all their help, and more, because The Fisherman is controlled by a malignant entity from End-World, where the Crimson King aims to unravel the fabric of all the universes.

It's to blighted End-World, via the portal of the Black House a creepy local house painted black that Jack and others travel to rescue Ty, in the novel's frantic conclusion.The book abounds with literary allusions, many to the King-verse, and readers not familiar with King's work and particularly with The Talisman may feel disoriented, especially at first. But there's so much here to revel in, from expertly excuted sequences of terror, awe or passion the novel is a deep reservoir of genuine emotion to some of the most wonderful characters to spring from a page in years, to a story whose energy is so high and craft so accomplished that most readers will wish it ran twice its great length. What is probably the most anticipated novel of the year turns out to be its most memorable to date, a high point in both the King and Straub canons. This will be a monster bestseller, and deservedly so. 2 million first printing. (One-day laydown Sept. 15)