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Carrie [Eleventh Printing with Signed News-Clipping & Facsimile Movie Script]
by King, Stephen
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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Rapid River, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. , 1988. Includes SK signed news-clipping of movie venues showing the original release. Book is fine early trade edition with number-line beginning w/11; matches first edition in overall design and dimensions. 1974 at copyright; no other dates, indications. Circa 1988 printing following Doubleday merger and becoming part of the Bantam, Doubleday, Dell Publishing Group. Black boards, maroon cloth spine wrap w/gilt spine titles, fine. Deckled pages, fine; no writing. White endpapers. Dust wrapper, fine; unclipped 17.95, 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 near fine bright and crisp early trade printing in original wrapper. Presented with this is a vintage movie clipping signed by Stephen King: "Stephen King, 12/2/80." Clipping features the classic theatrical imagery/credits and lists venues in the greater Cleveland area. Some toning; protected in clear sleeve and set into book. Additionally, included with this amazing collection is the movie script's second draft with facsimile signatures of all the stars from the film. Complete with original brass binder tacks and stylized card of signature legend. Protected in clear sleeve. 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 3/4" 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...
Reviews
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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- BiblioStax
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021541
- Title
- Carrie [Eleventh Printing with Signed News-Clipping & Facsimile Movie Script]
- 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
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FICTION HORROR CHAMBERLAIN ME IMAGINARY
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