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Carrie [Early Trade Printing]

Carrie [Early Trade Printing]

Carrie [Early Trade Printing]
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Carrie [Early Trade Printing]

by King, Stephen

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. , 1974. 1974 at copyright; no other dates, indications. Early trade printing matching original first edition in design and dimensions. Maroon full-cloth boards, gilt spine titles, fine. Deckled pages, fine; no writing. White endpapers. Code Z46 at page 199. Dust wrapper, fine; unclipped 14.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Features the original first edition jacket art by Alex Gotfryd of Carrie eerily peering out from behind door. Black on white stylized spine titles wrapping around to blurb at back panel. Rare bright and crisp early trade printing in near fine original wrapper. Stephen King's monumental and highly influential first novel of psychic terror. Carrie was the odd one at school; the one whose reflexes were always off in games, whose clothes never really fit, who never got the point of a joke. And so she became the joke, the brunt of teen-aged cruelties that puzzled her as much as they wounded her. If You've Got A Taste For Terror... Take Carrie To The Prom... Apprx. 5 34" x 8 1/2" design. Printed in the United States of America. 199 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Gottfryd, Alex (Jacket Design). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Synopsis

First published in 1974, Carrie was Stephen King's first published novel.  This dark tale introduces the reader to Carrie White, a social outcast in her highschool, menaced by bullies while at school, and her religious nut of a mother at home.  Carrie gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, and woe to her tormentors...

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On Dec 27 2021, a reader said:
This book is a short one and a good one. Super quick read with all my favorite King-isms. It's amazing that it's his first. I'd recommend it to anyone for a heartbreaking snow day read -- once you've finished the Shining and Misery, of course.

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Bookseller
BiblioStax US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
021315
Title
Carrie [Early Trade Printing]
Author
King, Stephen
Illustrator
Gottfryd, Alex (Jacket Design)
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Place of Publication
Garden City, New York
Date Published
1974
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
FICTION HORROR CHAMBERLAIN ME IMAGINARY

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