Bag of Bones: A Novel [Signed to "Michael" - PSA Certified]

New York: Scribner, Publishers, 1998. First printing; full numberline beginning w/1. Beautifully signed and inscribed by Stephen King at title page: "To Michael - Stephen King". Very attractive. Features PSA/DNA Certificate of Authenticity card and numbered oval label adhered at copyright page. Certificate number AJ36346 may be confirmed a their site. Also includes additional signed certificate from another authentication source. Burnt orange boards, white textured spine wrap, bright gilt spine titles, moderate shelf wear, discoloration. Interior text, pages, near fine. Moderate discoloration to outer corners of front and back pastedowns and endpapers; diminishing to page adjacent title page and at back prior to final page of text. White dust wrapper, light shelf wear, discoloration; unclipped 28.00, protected in new clear sleeve. Dramatic jacket design with profile of screaming woman with lake cabin in background by John Fontana. Back flap features laid back author's photo in brown bomber by Virginia Sherwood; back panel repeats vignette motif of small cabin on lake. Near very good signed first edition in same wrapper. A haunted love story. Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, 'Bag of Bones' recounts the plight of forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving even four years after the sudden death of his wife, Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the bland screen of his word processor. Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares of the house by the lake. Despite, or perhaps because of, Mike returns to the Noonan's isolated summer home in Sara Laughs. He finds the town familiar on the surface, but much changed underneath - held in the grip of a powerful magnate, Max Devore, who twists the very fabric of the community to his purpose: to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother. As Mike is drawn into the struggle, he falls in love with both of them and begins to rediscover his creative juice. All the while being further drawn into the ghostly visitations of Sara Laughs and his ever-escalating nightmares. 529 pages. Insured post.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illus. by Hobbing, Erich (Design); Fontana, John (Jacket Design). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.