Stephen King Proofs

**wizardsrainbow** · 03-18-2011 05:15 AM

Originally Posted by carlosdetweiller

Here is something that I had not seen before. A proof by Scribner of Robin Furth's DT Concordance, Vol. I. with white taped spine. I collect pretty much anything with original writing by King and this, to me, is significant for the introduction by King. If the seller is to be believed he says in his listing "A genuinely scarce edition. Scribner printed only a handful of copies of the proof and then recalled them all, presumably because the printing process somehow deleted almost all punctuation in the entire book, rendering the text pretty much unreadable." I scanned through the book and, indeed, there are no periods, commas, etc. throughout the book.

Photo of the cover and of the first page of King's introduction.

Bob-

I have a copy of this one also and signed by Robin Furth

**jhanic** · 03-18-2011 06:41 AM

I think I'm going to have to try to find one.

John

**Nerak** · 03-18-2011 07:07 AM

I have that Bev has two copies!

**Pasiuk57** · 03-18-2011 06:42 PM

Not any more!!

**jhanic** · 03-19-2011 03:48 AM

I bought one from Bev. I should have it soon.

John

**Bev Vincent** · 03-19-2011 07:57 AM

Yeah, I just sent it out via Charlie Utter's freight business (you'll only get that if you watch Deadwood!), aka the USPS priority mail.

**jhanic** · 03-19-2011 08:03 AM

Thanks, Bev. I'll let you know by email (plus I'll be posting the picture here and in my collections page) when I get it!

John

**F1racefan** · 03-22-2011 01:13 PM

I am confused about the DTI Plume alternate cover. Is the alternate cover only for the ARC, or were some of the trade editions published with the alternate cover?

Thanks,

Greg

**jhanic** · 03-22-2011 07:52 PM

That's a good question, Greg. I've always assumed that the variant Plume cover was done as an ARC, but I have a gut feeling that some may have made it out into the bookstores. They ARE pretty scarce, though, so I don't think many were ever done.

John

**Robert Fulman** · 03-23-2011 04:30 AM

Let's say there are three states to the Plume 1988 softcover:

1) The standard trade edition
2) The ARC with alternate cover
3) Trade edition with alternate cover

#1 and #2 are only distinguishable by the different cover. #2 and #3 are indistinguishable. If they are exactly the same, does it make sense to make a differentiation between them? Would an equally valid "gut feeling" be that because the ARC's had price info, etc., that they just ended up on the shelves? Inquiring minds want to know.

**jhanic** · 03-23-2011 07:33 AM

I vaguely remember something about the "kick-off" party for the Plume Gunslinger that featured the "variant" cover as THE cover. King saw that and did not like it, so they were recalled and the new (standard) one took its place. It's very possible that a box or two of the variants saw a release to the bookstores before the recall. Of course, I'm old and my memory is not to be trusted.

John

**Robert Fulman** · 03-23-2011 08:26 AM

Well, whatever it is, it's probably worth more than $1.76, right (http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trk...gunslinger+arc)?

**jhanic** · 03-23-2011 08:33 AM

Oh, yes! Definitely!

John

**Lilja** · 04-25-2011 02:40 PM

Don't know if they make dustjacket ARCs or what but I have a version of the UK dustjacket for Hearts in Atlantis that was done beofore King added the fifth story "Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling" and it would be quite interesting to know if these kind of things are usual or what.

The finished dustjacket

The ARC

The flapps. To the left the finished one that mentiones "Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling" and to the right the ARC.

Lilja

**Ari_Racing** · 04-25-2011 02:41 PM

Very interesting!

**ur2ndbiggestfan** · 04-25-2011 03:07 PM

They are very common, just let me take that off your hands for a dollar. (That's a sly ploy to get that jacket from you, don't believe a word of it!)

**Lilja** · 04-25-2011 03:10 PM

:-) Nice try!

Lilja

**jhanic** · 04-25-2011 04:32 PM

Those are very unusual. I've never seen anything like that one. I noticed they increased the price of the book by one pound also.

The verbiage on the back is different also.

John

**Lilja** · 04-25-2011 10:38 PM

The extra pound is for the fifth story :-)

Lilja

**George at C-Springs** · 04-27-2011 02:52 AM

Nice find Lilja!

**George at C-Springs** · 05-03-2011 02:40 PM

Orange Plume proof of DT 2 on eBay, not a perfect copy so shouldn't be too pricey ... $40 right now ... nice if you just want a copy that doesn't have to be F/F.

http://cgi.ebay.com/STEPHEN-KING-DRA...item5ae05262ff

**Sir_Boomme** · 05-16-2011 12:13 PM

bumping this since it was buried to deep for my thread scanning abilities

**biomieg** · 05-16-2011 12:20 PM

There is a policy not to have too many 'sticky' threads but this one should be 'stickied' ('stickified'?) IMO.

**Sir_Boomme** · 05-16-2011 12:50 PM

I agree

and would like to see one for Limited editions also.... if anyone is up for the chore.
(thanks john for keeping this UTD)

**biomieg** · 05-16-2011 01:25 PM

Basically, all the 'reference' threads could/should be stickied... There aren't that many that the first page of The Corner would get too cluttered (I think).

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