Your New Pride and Joy!

[stroppygoblin]

David, this is just incredible. I can't quite make out all of the inscription but look at the bloody length of it!

Here ya go...

For Dave Lyons,
With best wishes and
many good memories, most of
which seem to be tinged with
alcohol or some sort of hallucin-
organic substance - take care
of yourself + hope to see you
some time this Spring. This book
will never win a Nobel or Pulitzer,
but I like to think it’s better
than that Cosmopolitan abortion -
do you still play some blues guitar?

Again, best wishes,
Steve King
April 16, 1976

P.S - I still have my Top cigarette roller.

[peripheral]

Thanks Simon

[Pasiuk57]

David
GREAT inscription and background info!

[Theli]

Amazing inscription! Very cool.

[zelig]

Great inscription and early signatures. Very cool.

[jreitan47]

Wow, very cool, David!!

[Stockerlone]

Something lettered (not King) from a book-trading deal.

Al Sarrantonio - TOYBOX
signed limited lettered TT/52 traycased

[herbertwest]

That Salem's inscription is great !

[Brian861]

Very cool stuff indeed, David!

[herbertwest]

Nothing fancy. Just something I never heard about.



Sometimes, when I have some spare time, I go to some websites and check the 40 pages or so of auctions & ads related to Stephen King.
Most of the time, it's just a waste of time. And some other time, you get lucky and accidently discover some item you never heard about.

That was the case last weekend when an auction listed Stephen King in a (french) magazine from 1986, and was mentionning an essay written by King.
I ordered it, and it's true. It's a translation of the introduction to JimThompson's NOW AND ON EARTH

[Theli]

Hmm, I knew he'd done the Killer Inside Me, but not Now and On Earth. I'm a big fan of Thompson, he's in my top 5 authors with King.

[carlosdetweiller]

The King piece is actually called "Big Jim Thompson: An Appreciation" and it appeared in a reprint of NOW AND ON EARTH, by Dennis McMillan Publications in 1986.

[TCCBodhi]

I completed my set today (though still waiting on the CD Slipcover)!!! Thanks David!

I'll get a better set of pictures once the slipcover comes.

[Theli]

Very nice Seth, congrats!

[Ari_Racing]

Congratulations everyone!

I just got these:

[Brian861]

Nice adds, guys!

[bdwyer19]

I completed my set today (though still waiting on the CD Slipcover)!!! Thanks David!

I'll get a better set of pictures once the slipcover comes.

Congrats on completing the set!! Definitely not an easy task!

[herbertwest]

Ari : what is the Maine in your Words?

[TCCBodhi]

Thanks all, no it isn't easy, but I'm sure that quite a number of you have done the same. I'm still very pleased to have it.

[Merlin1958]

[Br!an]

Ari : what is the Maine in your Words?

The cover says "Stephen King on Diners."

[herbertwest]

Thanks.
I found this on facebook :
>>> https://www.facebook.com/downeastmag...51044147965072

Down East Magazine
13 décembre 2011 ·
Stephen King from our January 2011 feature "Maine in Your Words"
"My idea of the real Maine is lunch at Rosie's Diner in Lovell. Especially in the fall, after the summer folks go home. Grab a copy of the local paper (the Bridgton News), sit at the counter, and order the blueberry pancakes (with real maple syrup). Bacon on the side's optional. The cook wears a Red Sox hat, there's a picture of Elvis over the specials board, and the locals talk politics and football while the leaves fall outside. If you like, when you finish your lunch, you can stroll across to the public library. Not bad."

[Ari_Racing]

It's correct. That's the piece.

[herbertwest]

Thanks for confirming!
I see one reference that sort of be matching in Justin, it's C838 : Characters.

C838. “Characters” -
King’s contribution is part of an umbrella article with this title.
Appearances:
1. Down East (January 2011): 30.

"Characters" doesnt seem appropriate to me. Is it really the same one?

[peripheral]

Inscribed copies of two of my favourites, purchased from a fellow DT member. Thanks Greg.