Your New Pride and Joy!

[Fsmdr]

Wow! Remarque looks great! Very nice.

[George at C-Springs]

Not a King, but still a new P & J; original 1954 French Grande (46.75" x 62.5") on linen movie poster of "Hurricane on the Caine" (The Caine Mutiny).

[darkseer]

Not a King, but still a new P & J; original 1954 French Grande (46.75" x 62.5") on linen movie poster of "Hurricane on the Caine" (The Caine Mutiny).

Very Nice !!! Love that movie

[wolfehr]

My holy grail arrived today. This also completes my blank DT set (DTI-VII + LSOE + WTTKH).

This copy didn’t come with a slipcase. It also appears to be a misprint in that pages 17,20,21,24,25,28,29,32,33,36,37,40,41,43,45, and 48, have no text or no printing on them.










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[webstar1000]

Very cool. I believe that guy's story too about that book. He found it for a few bucks in a Goodwill bin or something like that. I was going to bid on it. Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TnTzDad]

Very nice set!

[wolfehr]

Very cool. I believe that guy's story too about that book. He found it for a few bucks in a Goodwill bin or something like that. I was going to bid on it. Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yup! Supposedly her local recycling center has a book room and she rummages through it periodically in the hopes someone threw out something good. Got lucky on this visit

Thank you!


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[webstar1000]

Very cool. I believe that guy's story too about that book. He found it for a few bucks in a Goodwill bin or something like that. I was going to bid on it. Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yup! Supposedly her local recycling center has a book room and she rummages through it periodically in the hopes someone threw out something good. Got lucky on this visit

Thank you!


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Gets a lot that way. If you could convince Winters to sell one of his slipcases... SCORE. He won't though I am told...

[wolfehr]

Very cool. I believe that guy's story too about that book. He found it for a few bucks in a Goodwill bin or something like that. I was going to bid on it. Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yup! Supposedly her local recycling center has a book room and she rummages through it periodically in the hopes someone threw out something good. Got lucky on this visit

Thank you!


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Gets a lot that way. If you could convince Winters to sell one of his slipcases... SCORE. He won't though I am told...

Hmmm... might give it a shot anyway. Thanks for the heads up!


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[lotuz]

My holy grail arrived today. This also completes my blank DT set (DTI-VII + LSOE + WTTKH).
This copy didn’t come with a slipcase. It also appears to be a misprint in that pages 17,20,21,24,25,28,29,32,33,36,37,40,41,43,45, and 48, have no text or no printing on them.

That's super cool! Can't believe that you managed to find a full blank set... Also I think it's neat that it's a misprint. I wonder how on earth that happened given the production process. How could one set of books have the misprint?? Unless there were more, but they all got caught except this one...

Very, very neat! Big congrats~~~!!!

[Hunchback Jack]

Congrats on the find, and on completing your blank set. That's a real achievement.

HBJ

[Randall Flagg]

. Also I think it's neat that it's a misprint. I wonder how on earth that happened given the production process. How could one set of books have the misprint?? Unless there were more, but they all got caught except this one...

Very, very neat! Big congrats~~~!!!

~1,500 Copies of The Gunslinger were misbound. A few "leaked" out, and more than one S/L was stolen during the binding/shipping of the book.


http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...rade+HC+1st+Ed

[lotuz]

~1,500 Copies of The Gunslinger were misbound. A few "leaked" out, and more than one S/L was stolen during the binding/shipping of the book.


http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...rade+HC+1st+Ed

That's crazy!!

So this was:

(1) one of ~1500 misbound copies
(2) of an unknown number (certainly less than 1500) that "leaked" out
(3) and also made it into the S/L run with the added signature page
(4) and was signed but the designation left blank

I would bet good money that this is the only book that shares all of these characteristics!

Amazing

[Randall Flagg]

Your 4 probabilities are more likely than not.



You left out the possibility it was stolen. IMO, less likely than the 4 other points.



I am not intimating that it was stolen, only that that is a possibility. Regardless, it's a VERY unique book.

[wizardsrainbow]

A little "fun" story to share....

One of my latest smaller consignments at Betts is from a gentleman who worked for a publisher, Hamilton Press, which was the publisher for Grant's DT II, III and IV...He told me that Grant used another publisher (not named by him) for Gunslinger but at the time Gunslinger came out, Don Grant was at a tag sale in his area and the person there had a whole box of new 1st edition Gunslingers on a table and was selling them. Person at sale told Don that he box came from the printers (must have been taken by an employee) and that was the last time Don used that printer...Don chose Hamilton Press...that is how the DT books came to Hamilton...because of a tag sale! True story!

[Hunchback Jack]

A similar thing happened to SubPress at one point. They were sending numbered/lettered copies with manufacturing defects to a company to be disposed of, and someone at the disposal company was selling them on eBay instead. These copies were often signed, but lacked a number/letter, slipcase or traycase, and often lacked a dustjacket. SubPress put a stop to it after they discovered what was going on.

I could well believe this Gunslinger copy should have been destroyed, but was sold instead.

HBJ

[Brian James Freeman]

A similar thing happened to SubPress at one point. They were sending numbered/lettered copies with manufacturing defects to a company to be disposed of, and someone at the disposal company was selling them on eBay instead. These copies were often signed, but lacked a number/letter, slipcase or traycase, and often lacked a dustjacket. SubPress put a stop to it after they discovered what was going on.

I could well believe this Gunslinger copy should have been destroyed, but was sold instead.

HBJ

Ha, I missed that Sub Press story, but apparently all of us who have been around long enough have one along these lines...!

Mine involves an employee from a printer stealing books to trade for small amounts of cash at a local bookstore, who then put them up on eBay. One day, an alert CD customer noticed several of our titles (without slipcases OR numbers) suddenly pop-up on eBay before we even had them in our warehouse. They were still being packed at the PRINTER.

I contacted our printer, since there was literally only one explanation, and they freaked out because, again, there was only one explanation, and they started an investigation. The company's CEO called me the next day, their state's state police got involved... And the employee was caught and it ended up being a fairly big deal. The arrangement between the employee and the bookstore had been going on for years, from what I understand, and they were done in by a watchful book collector noticing an un-numbered Limited Edition book showing up on eBay too early!

Brian

[Randall Flagg]

Mine involves an employee from a printer stealing books to trade for small amounts of cash at a local bookstore, who then put them up on eBay. One day, an alert CD customer noticed several of our titles (without slipcases OR numbers) suddenly pop-up on eBay before we even had them in our warehouse. They were still being packed at the PRINTER.

I contacted our printer, since there was literally only one explanation, and they freaked out because, again, there was only one explanation, and they started an investigation. The company's CEO called me the next day, their state's state police got involved... And the employee was caught and it ended up being a fairly big deal. The arrangement between the employee and the bookstore had been going on for years, from what I understand, and they were done in by a watchful book collector noticing an un-numbered Limited Edition book showing up on eBay too early!

Brian

Sometimes the good guys do win.

[Earl of Popkin]

Bit of a tangent but none of my local friends seem to appreciate the sheer shitheadedness of the douchenozzles involved in this. I knew all of these guys involved and the ones that worked at Caliban books were always total pricks to me. Sometimes karma is a beautiful thing.

Anyway it’s not detailed in this particular article, but I know it’ll make you all cringe to know this. They stole very very rare books from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and then took them to Caliban to be sold. Some of the larger books...they stole by ripping out 1 page at a time for more discreet transport. Oh the humanity

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e9b40631d88e

[cit74]

My new P&J is in the mail and should arrive by the end of the week - really looking forward to this new Charnel House addition...I do have all of the limited states for this particular author...

[The Library Policeman]

Got this from David@betts:



Thanks David.

[Merlin1958]

Got this from David@betts:



Thanks David.

I don't know, sig looks kinda "iffy" to me. You gotta watch that guy from, Betts. He's from "Con"necticut!!! lol lol lol


Very nice pick-up, Alan. Very nice! Wish I had seen it. It would be on the right side of the pond if I had!! lol lol

Spoiler:

Just in case someone unfamiliar with, Betts should happen by this post. There is no more trusted King Book Seller on the "'net" than, David Williamson the owner of Bett's Books.

[peripheral]

Oh that's cool, Alan.. Nice acquisition

[becca69]

This! Turns out my newly acquired pristine, still-in-the-wrapper copy of Legends is a lettered edition. A nice surprise and a relatively cheap price, considering the title.

[peripheral]

This! Turns out my newly acquired pristine, still-in-the-wrapper copy of Legends is a lettered edition. A nice surprise and a relatively cheap price, considering the title.