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I think the publication date was October 17, 1975.

Here are a couple of internal memos from the Doubleday offices that refer to the publication date and to the correcting of the price of the book...

RF,

Sounds reasonable. I didn't want to assume that Tuesdays were official release days back in 1975 but I have a high degree of confidence that it was formally released between October 27-30....

September 5 is when the story actually begins in the book with Ben's arrival in Jerusalem's Lot. George Beahm indicated that SL was released near Halloween, 1975. Using Tuesday as the traditional...

'Salem's Lot October 28, 1975