Glenn Chadbourne, Mark Stutzman, Chris Odgers (illustrator). THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. Not an easy book to find in a first printing anymore. A pretty nice copy to round out your King collection. A monster sized book with 990 plus pages without most of the wear and lean normally associated with a volume this physical size. This was originally released as a bargain book and started gaining it's own popularity as a collector's item. This is a compilation edition that includes the author's first four books unabridged and bound in maroon faux leather. The photo jacket depicts the Shining motion picture with Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall and a really early King picture on the rear panel. The jacket has some light rubbing wear, light edgewear. This copy has some lightish soil to the edges of the text block, some lightish board edgewear, creasing in the spine area, the text block is slightly concave at the top of the spine, two light corner bumps. A square solid tight carefully read copy.
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