Current Market Value-Experts assess yours, or other's collectible King item

[hyraxia]

TV series don't generally push the value of books up, Films do...but usually that quickly drops down if the film gets forgotten... [that's oversimplifying by the way]

[Patrick]

TV series don't generally push the value of books up, Films do...but usually that quickly drops down if the film gets forgotten... [that's oversimplifying by the way]

Thanks. Game of Thrones being the exception?

[hyraxia]

Game of Thrones being the exception

And a good part of that market growth is the quality of the series...

[harrison ryan]

What's this early printing of The Shining worth? VG+ book, VG- dust jacket, $8.95 list price, S14 gutter code (indicating it was printed in March or April 1978?):
Thanks!

IMO, the book itself has very little value. The dust jacket, however, does have some value. I think that with the $8.95 price intact it is identical to first edition dust jackets and could be married to a jacketless first edition which would substantially increase the value. Maybe $40 for the dust jacket? It looks pretty nice.

Yeah, jacket is unclipped and pretty nice, some small imperfections and a closed tear to the bottom left at the crease (hard to see in pic). Thanks, Bob! I'm not looking to flip it, just wanted to know if I did well on it price-wise. Appreciate the response.

[Robert Fulman]

Any thoughts on the value of a sealed Dark Score Stories? Is it still considered a desirable collectible, or are we totally over it now?

[jhanic]

Because only 250 copies were printed (Lilja) I'd say it's still desirable. I'd price it in the $200-300 range.

John

[soggy_amphibian]

I've got a Wind Through The Keyhole, where pages 151-182 should be, pages 119-150 appear a second time. Amazon has offered to replace it, but I was wondering if the error might be one of those things that would make this copy more valuable than one with all the right pages. I can read the missing pages in the library's copy if I need to.
So I seek your opinion, say true: Replace, or keep a hold of?

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

Get a replacement.

[Jimimck]

Yeah I agree, get a replacement. Generally printing errors that impact on reading the whole story (missing pages, illegable words etc) don't create value in books, as opposed to errors like pages bound upsides own etc where you can still at least read the story...

[Shannon]

I love error and misprinted items. I'd pay more for that.

[barlow]

I like misprinted dust jackets, I have a copy of the Viking 1st Gunslinger where instead of King's name being in silver his name is in black with silver highlighting along the edges. I think it actually looks better this way. A Signed copy of Clive Barker's Cold Heart Canyon where the lettering on the front of the dust jacket is missing other than being raised so the cover is his picture with blind stamped lettering. The artist edition of LSOE that matches my dark tower books has a rear end paper that is upside down. I also have a couple a of books that are bound upside down including a signed first Heart Shaped Box and the Black House gift edition that matches my Signed limited Talisman and Black House. I think all of these copies are cool oddities but as far as printing errors go unless the book is totally blank making it essentially a dummy copy or if the entire first printing was misprinted and recalled I would exchange the copy when the error makes the book unreadable.


Ken

[Brice]

Yeah, I'd ask for a replacement. It is a rare circumstance where a printing error raises the value of a book. Keep it if you particularly like it (I have a misbound Clive Barker book I've kept, but only because I kept forgetting to return it.), but it's unlikely to raise the value and most people would just rather have a properly printed copy.

[carlosdetweiller]

Agree with most everyone else. I think you will be better off getting a replacement copy. Production errors are great for numismatists and philatelists but not so much for bibliophiles.

[Brice]

I'll be happy to replace all those 'Salem's Lot dustjackets of yours with properly corrected ones.



Jokes aside that's the only significant exception in the SK world, right?

[Randall Flagg]

I recall some people wanted (long after the fact), the screwed of copies of Cronin's "The Passage".

[Shannon]

Numismatists: money collectors
Philatelists: stamp collectors

Thank you, Bob. Now that I've learned two new things today, I can go back to bed.

[Randall Flagg]

• Audiophile: a person enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction.

• Technophile: A person who is enthusiastic about new technology.

• lepidopterist - butterflies and moths
• coleopterist - beetles
• dipterist - flies
• arctophile - teddy bears
• oologist - birds' eggs
• deltiologist - postcards
• notaphilist - banknotes
• tegestologist - beer mats
• phillumenist - matchboxes or matchbook labels
• scripophilist - old bond and share certificates

[Brice]

Oologist is new to me.

[barlow]

I recall some people wanted (long after the fact), the screwed of copies of Cronin's "The Passage".

I know this is probably somewhere in the Cronin thread, but was the whole first printing defective or just part of them?

[Joe315]

I recall some people wanted (long after the fact), the screwed of copies of Cronin's "The Passage".

I know this is probably somewhere in the Cronin thread, but was the whole first printing defective or just part of them?

I think it was the initial run that had the error but was caught early in the process so that there are first printings w/o the error. So the error copies I guess would be the first state of the first printing and the nonerror copies would be the second state of the first printing.

[ChristineB]

Get a replacement, even the ones that are printed upside down aren't worth much, and this is a book that had 100's of thousands in the first print run, missing pages does not make it worth more, it makes it worth nothing in my opinion. I would assume this is not a 1st print run book, which means it really isn't worth anything.

I've got a Wind Through The Keyhole, where pages 151-182 should be, pages 119-150 appear a second time. Amazon has offered to replace it, but I was wondering if the error might be one of those things that would make this copy more valuable than one with all the right pages. I can read the missing pages in the library's copy if I need to.
So I seek your opinion, say true: Replace, or keep a hold of?

[Randall Flagg]

I recall some people wanted (long after the fact), the screwed of copies of Cronin's "The Passage".

I know this is probably somewhere in the Cronin thread, but was the whole first printing defective or just part of them?

I think it was the initial run that had the error but was caught early in the process so that there are first printings w/o the error. So the error copies I guess would be the first state of the first printing and the nonerror copies would be the second state of the first printing.

Actually, IIRC, more than one printer handled the book. Some books had the error and most did not. Not sure how to call "balls and strikes" on the issue, but I say both are 1st editions, 1st state, but some printers screwed up (actually they had a bad file).

[Joe315]

I recall some people wanted (long after the fact), the screwed of copies of Cronin's "The Passage".

I know this is probably somewhere in the Cronin thread, but was the whole first printing defective or just part of them?

I think it was the initial run that had the error but was caught early in the process so that there are first printings w/o the error. So the error copies I guess would be the first state of the first printing and the nonerror copies would be the second state of the first printing.

Actually, IIRC, more than one printer handled the book. Some books had the error and most did not. Not sure how to call "balls and strikes" on the issue, but I say both are 1st editions, 1st state, but some printers screwed up (actually they had a bad file).

That makes sense. That info pushes the value of the error version down as far as I am concerned.

[soggy_amphibian]

Thanks all!
The stuff Calvin Tower rambled on about book oddities pushing value up in my 2nd read-through of the Dark Tower last year came to mind and pushed my hopes up - just need a door to his level of the Tower!
Might still go to the library tomorrow so I can carry on reading while I wait for the replacement.

[hyraxia]

My two cents - Errors generally only increase the value when that error was corrected in subsequent issues of that impression and when that impression is the first impression. This is more often than not an editing error rather than a printing error. Then it comes down to scarcity of the error.