I was ready to drop $25K on a King item... I did whatever I could to try and come up with the money (it was art.. Whelan) and at that time it was $35'ish Canadian and that was just too far out of my reach. I had to pass. I don't regret it to be honest.. but think on it often.
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He has produced works more than that dude. I know many people who have paid over $40k US for his large originals. Some here on our very boards. Not to mention, works from the original Gunslinger book (Bob had 3!) are worth much more.... but I would be hesitant to say exactly how much... but will say much more. So yes... many works over $25k... MANY.
EDIT: and I’m only talking King related.
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$1500 on a DT7 Whelan original published ink drawing (which I don't get until Christmas).
I would spend $7K on a lettered Regulators if I could.
Wanted: Human skin edition of The Book of the Dead. Will accept PC copy.
The most I've paid for any single King item is $800 for a Grant DT II S/L.
(My incomplete matching DT S/L set was more in total, of course, but less than $800 per volume)
Notable mention is a Gunslinger 1/1 in shrinkwrap, for which I paid $500 about 15 years ago - more *by far* than I'd spent on a book until then, and for many years thereafter.
HBJ
$750 for a signed and annotated End of Watch won through Owen's recent auction. Still worth it! I'm definitely a sucker for an auction.
Honestly, I haven't spent a penny of my money (I secretly use my wife's she just doesn't know it yet)......oh....... hi honey, I didn't see you standing behind me.....hey, what are you doing with that knife...........
I'm the caretaker of Room 217..............I've always been the caretaker of Room 217
Speaking of the wife....Mine spent 2K (The most spent on any published book in my collection) for this....
Spoiler:
Tell her to drop me a line if she would like to double her money.
"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
Anyone have a cure for a woman who is suffering from hysterical laughter?
My DT Matching number set, same price as Kris $15k.
Next, my PS Lettered Thinner at issue price.
$1800 for The Stand S/L
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Ubris
11K for a DT matching set, but I returned it a couple of weeks latter due to undisclosed defects.
$3800 for The Stand Lettered
$3800 for Skeleton Crew Lettered (from Betts recently)
Most I would spend would be 12-13K for a DT matching set.
Wanted:
'Salem's Lot Portfolio #606
Fairy Tale UK S/L
I keep telling myself that someday I'll spring for that edition @ $2K'ish, but I doubt I ever will. The most I've ever spent on a King item is $350...so it would take going waayy out of my comfort zone to go for it. I can afford it, but I guess my King mania is not extreme enough for me to justify it. Still though...some days the Want is worse than others, so who knows...
Back in 2003 I said I'd never spend more than $40 in a book. Then the next year Grant Books announced the pack of Black House+The Talisman gift+The Dark Tower 7 Artist for $165, and I said "Well...it's a little more but not that much". But when I saw their quality I thought "Well...I could buy a couple of gift editions". Desperation arrived 3 months later. Then Insomnia. And what a fool I'd be if I don't buy that gift edition of From a Buick 8 for $65!" And now I have DT7 Artist but I don't have 5 or 6, and I need them. But no matter what, I'd not buy a signed copy. $200 dollars is way too much."
And here I am, 15 years later, 80 books signed by King, almost 800 King books and a full room for his works.
Wanted list:
Ubris
Rebound IT and before that, Rebound Firestarter. I could not afford either one without the installments (Thanks Paul!). The most I've ever spent in one payment would be Cemetery Dance's S/L of Sleeping Beauties
I can say this... all I have spent... has been worth it. The joy I get from getting a rare book is just... extremely exhilarating!!!
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Yeah, I sure get that... but I've been doing this book thing now for thirty years, so my budgetary parameters are pretty well fixed and not likely to move. I have spent more than that $350 aforementioned price tag -- several times, in fact -- but it wasn't on a King book…I'm afraid I just don't read or collect him with the passion that many others here do ( which doesn't diminish my desire for the s/l of THE STAND, though, that's for sure :-)).
It's OK Ari, 30 years ago I wanted HB's of each book, then I discovered short stories in magazines, then I won some lotteries for signed limiteds, then I 'needed' a copy of every book signed, then
lettered copies and rareties... and here I am with 450+ signed items and over 4000 King related items! It is an addiction! I call it "Friends of SK"
While my mostly-complete set of DT books would be the most expensive taken as a whole, the most I've paid for a single novel is the coffin/bible S/L of The Stand.
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
So far, the CD Sleeping Beauties lettered $2,500 and Gwendy's Button Box lettered, $1,750. Before these two I had not spent over $1000 on any one single book.