Well, I got one out of three. Could be worse...
Well, I got one out of three. Could be worse...
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 two out of three , the only one missing is what i think is the easiest one US Viking proof
I´ll have to get that some day !
If I may please ask how many of the CD proofs were made?
My records show fewer than 12 were produced.
John
Thank you very much for the information.Originally Posted by jhanic
Some information regarding the Orbik cover IT from CD which appeared yesterday, September 25 2014, from Brian Freeman:
There were 20 review copies of FDNS with the Gift Edition cover and 20 review copies with the Limited Edition cover. The content is the same otherwise. Also, there are 20 review copies of IT featuring the Orbik cover artwork, some of which went into the Grab Bag.
For those who are interested in this sort of information, these were never distributed to reviewers or booksellers. For FDNS, we realized our edition was going to sell out long before a review could be written. For IT we decided after the review copies were printed that a big trade paperback wasn't the best representation of a $125 book. Essentially, we worried that it wouldn't really impress the recipient.
Just a little behind the scenes information for those who are interested in such matters.
Brian
WANT LIST: Any SK #186; Dark Man Unbound 1st Proof; FDNS Unbound 1st Proof; FDNS Black Tape Spine Proof; FDNS Unbound Color Proof
Hi,
I recently acquired photocopies of the original manuscript for IT, used by Viking to set the novel. It counts more than 1600 pages, photocopied & cerlox bound in 3 separate volumes with card covers in three different colours. I hope you can see the photo I'm attaching. It contains lots of additions and deletions, done by Stephen King and by his editor at the time Chuck Verrill.
These were copies made by the publisher. I'm told there would be between 30 and 50 of these sets out there. I acquired them through a rare book shop in Toronto. Apparently they were brought in by a collector who had worked for a publisher there.
I was wondering if there's anyone on this forum that can tell me a bit more about them. Was the typing done by King himself, or was there an earlier version that the publisher used to type up this version, add comments from Verrill, and then sent back to King to add his final comments before the book was set? Does anyone know exactly how many copies were made?
all info would be greatly appreciated, as they really are wonderful.
all the best
the photo of the covers
I've never even heard of these. A great acquisition!
John
vincent, I hope you don't mind, but I have took the liberty of copying that photo to the site. Dropbox links can become obsolete over time and something this rare deserves to be seen by future collectors.
"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
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