Interesting the price difference on the order form.
Interesting the price difference on the order form.
Copying over here ELazansky's pictures from the Pride & Joy thread:
THE BACHMAN BOOKS STEPHEN KING TRADE PAPERBACK OCT 1985. THIS IS ALSO A TRUE 1st EDITION RELEASED AT THE SAME TIME AS THE HARDCOVER (IF NOT BEFORE) Most bookstores only carried the paperback $9.95 compared to $19.95 hardcover(That is why the hardcover offer was in the back of the trade paperback.)
1st EDITION AD.
25,000 PRINT RUN ON HARDCOVER & 300,000 ON PAPERBACK.
Why would the ad/order sheet for the hardback edition be printed inside the TPB?
Presuming the person had the TPB in hand, why would they want to order a hardback?
Because it's a SPECIAL HARDCOVER COLLECTORS' EDITION.
Based on that letter the article is incorrect on the 1st edition print run (currently states 15,000). I have amended it.
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
I checked in here to confirm my recollection of a simultaneous release of the US hardcover and paperback (I bought the hardcover as a Christmas gift for my sister while another sister bought me the paperback; I think it's the only King hardcover from that era that I don't own).
When they said how many dollars it would cost, I was amazed at how badly they'd overvalued it - then I realized they'd overvalued the dollars as well.
Based on this information....I suggest a removal of "HC" from the title of this thread.
FOR SALE OR TRADE
Dark Tower 7 Artist Edition n/a
The Waste Lands 1st Edition in Shrinkwrap $200
1984 Grant Gift Edition of The Talisman $400
Lisey's Story ARC $50
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WANTED
Signed 1st Edition of Storm of The Century (Paperback)