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    I don't know if this counts but I was theoretically the owner of an asbestos FIRESTARTER for a few, brief shining moments, which I was willing to pay over $14,000 for. Alas it did not work out quite the way I expected.
    The story is here as a cautionary tale on the dangers of ebay for anyone interested.
    You are telling me that the ORIGINAL cover art that you own was cheaper than a lettered Fire-starter? If that's the case then I would just stick with the art...
    Haha. All Im saying is that I was willing to pay $14K on something that didn't work out once.
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    Paul Suntup's rebound IT......

    Same here.

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by webstar1000 View Post
    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.
    What did Whelan produce that is worth $25k?

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    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.
    What did Whelan produce that is worth $25k?
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Ben Mears View Post
    Issue price of Centipede 'Salem's Lot deluxe.
    Ditto! Think it was $900.. or $950.. Then I spent about $100 Fed Ex-ing both it and my copy of the numbered edition back to the bindery to fix some fairly major issues. Both came back perfect, though, thankfully.

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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.
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    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.

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    $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.

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    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...........
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    Speaking of the wife....Mine spent 2K (The most spent on any published book in my collection) for this....
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    Tell her to drop me a line if she would like to double her money.
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    My DT Matching number set, same price as Kris $15k.

    Next, my PS Lettered Thinner at issue price.

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    $1800 for The Stand S/L
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ari_Racing View Post
    $1800 for The Stand 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...

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    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.
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    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

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Ari_Racing View Post
    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.
    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 :-)).

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    Quote Originally Posted by webstar1000 View Post
    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!!!
    I say Amen to that!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ari_Racing View Post
    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.
    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"

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    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.
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    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.

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