This makes me wonder what the highest price ever spent on a King item was.
This makes me wonder what the highest price ever spent on a King item was.
I never heard off that edition before.
3K dollars, signed by King and Tom Hanks
BUT there is no information about the limitation, nor whether it's exactly the same version signed by King and Hanks?
> https://www.gauntletpress.com/produc...rank-darabont/
All the original $8.95 dust jackets were used. They had been printed and ready to go. Then at the last minute King decided he wanted the price reduced and they reprocessed them all. All the jackets went through a printer to add the $7.95 price (it's printed, not a sticker) and the original $8.95 was trimmed off. A few dust jackets (approx 5) were found in a filing cabinet at Doubleday (presumably they were sent to the office for quality checking) that had escaped this process. The story is they were "thrown out and rescued" but that afaik, is unsubstantiated. They eventually made their way into collectors hands and became legendary. More recently 2 more were discovered by the cover artist that had been sent to him and got lost amongst his paperwork. These are now in then hands of collectors as well (one of these is the one Alec has up for sale).
Relisted to bid. Have fun... STEPHEN KING - THE DARK TOWER VI: SONG OF SUSANNAH S/L PC COPY
I find this intriguing. From a member here...
Het pad naar De Donkere Toren (The Road to the Dark Tower) Bev Vincent (Dutch)
Gunslinger S/L #21, $6K BIN; has been up for sale by same seller previously (see note in Dark Tower Same-Number Sets: Who Owns Them?, "#21 (not complete I for sale eBay 44_zxn 6/19; II, III for sale on eBay by Raysroost38 12/08".
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Stephen-Kin...wAAOSwgo5fCNq5
Does not have slipcase. IMO, lowers value by $1K.
Kris,
I can't identify more than 6 for sure, but I was certain that the known increased from 5 to 7. And I thought I read somewhere here that a tdt.org member found his copy at a used bookstore and bought it for a few hundred dollars. He kept it for a long time and then sold it through David Aronowitz at The Fine Books Company. It was for sale at ~$90K about 8-12 years ago. It eventually sold but I don't think it went for the original asking price. I can only identify the following owners: unknown purchaser of Alec's book, Bob J., Chris C., Alec (2), possibly JJ Abrams, and me. JJ Abrams is speculative based on hearsay. Who am I missing? And if not JJ Abrams, who owns that copy? This has been puzzling me for a few years now and no one has had the answer. Any help is appreciated.
John
I believe Steve still has his. https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...=1#post1071912
No he doesn’t.
Hard to tell the scale of the signature.
Stephen King " DESPERATION " SIGNED/AUTOGRAPHED BOOK GOOD CONDITION
Pre-Owned
$102.50
Time left3d 19h left (Thu, 5:03 AM)2 bids
+$4.92 shipping
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Several good King S/L's here:
Signed Stephen King Mega Lot Anthologies Dark Forces Prime Evil Quietly Now +++
Pre-Owned
$99.99
Jul-12 10:191 bid
Free shipping
https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/...Zk/s-l225.webp
Odd that the original owner wouldn't have kept the slipcases.
Simply devalues the group by hundreds or more.
Several books are also clearly damaged.
I'm not up to the work, but a few are candidates for a special rebind.
Hmm...
It seems it was closed by mistake, so I'm reopening it.
Not sure if this has been circulated. Interesting, but not for me:
Typed letter signed. A long letter from King to a reader looking for a copy of "The Dark Tower" which had gone out of print.
Abe Books
$325 +$4 S/H