Interesting website. The place doesn't answer the phone after 6:15pm EDT (I thought New York never slept).
No big deal, ordered one and noted that if not autographed, cancel the purchase.
Interesting website. The place doesn't answer the phone after 6:15pm EDT (I thought New York never slept).
No big deal, ordered one and noted that if not autographed, cancel the purchase.
Per the (currently defunct) Hill House webpage:
There's a side story to this book's publication of interest to collectors. The first edition of 'Salem's Lot was priced at $7.95. One of the points of a true first edition 'Salem's Lot dust jacket is the inclusion of an error in the flap copy—the character "Father Cody" is misprinted as "Father Callahan." For many years this was considered the absolute first issue—until 1983, that is. I was working at Doubleday at the time as a publicist and had just finished doing the publicity on Pet Sematary. One day I was walking by the art department and noticed that the designers were cleaning out their flat files, throwing out the thousands of old dust jackets that had accumulated over the years. I saw a few King jackets lying in the discard file and asked if I could take them. Once I returned to my office, I started leafing through the dust jackets and saw three covers for 'Salem's Lot. I noticed, however, that the retail price was wrong—$8.95 instead of $7.95. However, the "Father Cody" error was present. I called my friend Bill Thompson and asked how this could be. Bill replied that the book had been originally priced at $8.95; however, at the last minute the sales department had decided that it was priced too high and should be reduced by $1. The dust jackets had just been printed with the original price, but they were still at the printer, so Doubleday made the call to have the printer price-clip the $8.95 and run the jackets through the press with the new price of $7.95. I realized that I was holding the three dust jackets that had been sent to the art department before the repricing. Today these three dust jackets, mated with first edition books, reside in the collections of the three top Stephen King collectors in the world. A dealer sold the third one about two years ago for over $10,000.
Not sayin' I have a great mind or anything but I did the same around 6:45. Hopefully you guys left some for me. If not, I told them to cancel it so no harm done.
I ordered 2 copies (down to 7 now)
Dragline : Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'.
Luke : Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
LOL. I thought the same the day I set foot on the city...and when we decided to walk at 3am on a friday, everything was closed and almost no one was in the streets. I tried to find a place to eat on a saturday at 11 pm, almost 95% were closed.Interesting website. The place doesn't answer the phone after 6:15pm EDT (I thought New York never slept).
But I love that city so much...
As for the Strand...last time I was in NY I spent all my money left there. Outstanding bookstore!
Wanted list:
Ubris
Down to 6.
This collecting stuff is a sickness! ~Patrick
I thought there were more then 3, but have no real idea since I wasn't there, of course.
I'm sure if there is intelligent life somewhere out there in the universe, they are wise enough to stay away from us.
And the people bowed and prayed, to the cell phone god they made...
I have a postcard from a bookseller saying he only had 8 copies of SIX STORIES left for that $85 price. I thought it was too much and didn't take one! You were much smarter then me back then!
I also have a card from L.W. Currey in which he offered me a copy of THE GUNSLINGER (yes, one of the 500 signed copies) but he had to charge me $10 more then cover price, and suggested I go directly to Grant, which I did, not bothering to get another copy for $10 extra.
I'm sure if there is intelligent life somewhere out there in the universe, they are wise enough to stay away from us.
And the people bowed and prayed, to the cell phone god they made...
Ha! I've said before that any SK collector of any significance is on this site...haha...
Nothing to compare with some of the above, but back in my early days on eBay (1999 or 2000) I saw a F/F copy of Six Stories (#178) + Contraband 2 up for bids together. I got both for $636. I had seen copies of Six Stories going for $800 at that time.
I turned around and sold Contraband II for over $500, meaning my outlay for the Six Stories was about $100.
The Six Stories was my first S/L book.
Thanks for the heads up, I ordered one also stating on only wanted a signed copy...
I have recieved the french new edition of FRANKENSTEIN, illuqtrated by bernie
And i noticed something : well the book have more pages than the other french from 1984 (but this cOuld be due to the layout), and i dnt have my other copy at home to check
HOWEVER, something else is also very intriguing : the introduction.
The one from 1984 was 2 pages long, and the new one is 4 pages long, and knda include the previous one at its end.
The intro is divided in two parts, which are if i recall well: "about the book" n "about the writer"
are there 2 different introductions? Can someone compare an early edition with a more recent one?
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Back in the glory days...
Signed copy of Duddits (German dreamcatcher) @ $40
Signed Limited Insomnia portfolio @ $40
Sold the former for loadsamoney
Gave the latter away as a prize in an SKFakes competition
Calla Wolf
Ist ed of Night Shift for around $5.
-Craig
Wanted!!
Bachman Books HC 1st/1st
Red Leather Dreamcatcher
Red Leather Everything's Eventual
Shoot me a PM if you have any of the above!
My Collection
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I have been collecting for 20 years, own over 400 books, almost 2/3rds signed by King, and I cannot come close to any of your amazing stories!
The closest I can come I think was that I had purchased the S/L Wizard & Glass on eBay (#296) for about $300 (back before any inkling that DT V-VII were in the works) and was looking through ABE.com and saw that a bookseller in NY (Marianna Fontana) had listed seperately DT S/L I, II, and III all #296 for sale. I bought all 3 for about $3000, and thus I was on my way to putting together my first complete same-numbered DT S/L set. And while the price was low compared to what the books are worth today, I thought it was unbelievable luck that I could put together a same-number set "the hard way." That set is among my favorite collectibles in my collection and has been subsequently augmented by:
#296 UK Wizard & Glass S/L
#296 S/L Gunslinger audio tapes read by King
#296 of all 4 DT prints by Michael Whelan
Dragline : Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'.
Luke : Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
you can be his security double!
-Craig
Wanted!!
Bachman Books HC 1st/1st
Red Leather Dreamcatcher
Red Leather Everything's Eventual
Shoot me a PM if you have any of the above!
My Collection
If you are considering a DropBox account, please also consider using me as a reference...
http://db.tt/Msd4eKO
I've had some pretty good deals on books. More amazing though are the books that I've been gifted with both here and at .net. In fact most of my most valuable books were gifts from friends here or there.
I just called The Strand
they are sold out....