KING, STEPHEN. THE TOMMYKNOCKERS.
Stephen King has reported that the first edition, first issue of THE TOMMYKNOCKERS has, on the copyright page under the row of numbers "12345678910," the words "Permissions to Come." This line was dropped part-way through the first press run. Furthermore, the book was issued in two dust jacket states:
1.) with the author's name in red on the front cover (copy seen with the first issue point in this dust jacket state);
2.) with the author's name in gold on the front cover. Frank Halpern of the Rare Book Room of the Free Library of Philadelphia reported, "I have recently come across what may be an unrecorded variant of the 'Permissions to Come' state of Stephen King's TOMMYKNOCKERS." He went on to state that he had seen copies with a cancelled leaf numbered as pages 257-258, clearly attached to a stub at the gutter margin. He had compared the cancelled state to a copy of the "Permissions to Come" state without the cancel and could fine "absolutely" no difference (other than the cancel) between them. He concluded that, " . . . it is possible that an error was discovered early in the print run and that the already completed copies were corrected by the [removal of the leaf and] the insertion of a cancel."
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