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Stephen King
"Carrie"
US First Edition/First Printing
Doubleday 1974
Signed & Inscribed by Stephen King

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Stephen King "Carrie". Doubleday 1974. US First Edition, First Printing. "First Edition" as required on copyright page. "P6" Code on last page. Signed by the Author. A dj/HC book with original dust-jacket. Original production run for this book was only 30,000 copies. ISBN #0-385-08695-4.

Inscription reads as follows:

"For Jim,
With Best Wishes,
Stephen King
3/31/83"

Signed directly into the book by Stephen King on the cover page. Not on some bookplate that was then affixed into the book. Very beautiful signature & inscription presentation. Unclipped dust-jacket showing original price of $5.95. A very rare book, more so signed. For the discerning Stephen King collector, this is a one-of-a-kind collectible!

Condition

Very Good++ condition. Brand new Mylar protective covering. Clean & straight boards. No markings, writings, or stampings. No attached bookplates or signs of any removed. A wonderful bright clean copy. Square and tight spine without binding separation. The book is free of ripped, creased, or missing pages. Dust-jacket not price clipped. The dust-jacket has a small closed tear and several light creases. Minor edge-wear in a couple of spots only. This book stands out as having had great care. Great original collectible book!

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Additional Book Information

Why read Carrie? Stephen King himself has said that he finds his early work "raw," and Brian De Palma's movie was so successful that we feel like we have read the novel even if we never have. The simple answer is that this is a very scary story, one that works as well--if not better--on the page as on the screen. Carrie White, menaced by bullies at school and her religious nut of a mother at home, gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, powers that will eventually be turned on her tormentors. King has a way of getting under the skin of his readers by creating an utterly believable world that throbs with menace before finally exploding. He builds the tension in this early work by piecing together extracts from newspaper reports, journals, and scientific papers, as well as more traditional first- and third-person narrative in order to reveal what lurks beneath the surface of Chamberlain, Maine.

News item from the Westover (ME) weekly Enterprise, August 19, 1966: "Rain of Stones Reported: It was reliably reported by several persons that a rain of stones fell from a clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the town of Chamberlain on August 17th."

Although the supernatural pyrotechnics are handled with King's customary aplomb, it is the carefully drawn portrait of the little horrors of small towns, high schools, and adolescent sexuality that give this novel its power, and assures its place in the King canon.

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