The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole [Limited Edition Signed by Stephen King in Snake-Skin Clamshell Case]

Hampton Falls, New Hampshire: Donald M. Grant, 2012. Signed by Stephen King in blue and Jae Lee in black, and numbered in bold red pen at limitation page: "This special first edition of 'The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole' is signed by author Stephen King and artist Jae Lee. The edition is limited to 800. This is copy '652'. 'Stephen King' 'Jae Lee'". The Little Sisters of Eluria Limited edition by Donald M. Grant Publishing. This Special Limited Edition is embellished with six full-color and eleven b&w illustrations by award winning artist Jae Lee with color by June Chung. Jae is widely known to SK fans for his renditions in The Dark Tower graphic novels. Deep burnt orange snake-skin patterned boards, gilt impressed cover design and spine titles, fine. Cover design depicts silhouette of flying crows or floating leaves wrapping around to stylized gilt spine titles. Heavy substantial volume weighing over three lbs. in case. Heavy stock leaves, fine. Matte endpapers feature pictograhic cave drawing of figure with bow and arrow aiming at strange giant entity with head and multi-tendrilled body approaching out of concentric-circle vortex. Beautiful bind, fine, square. Original wrapper, fine; protected in new clear sleeve. Features dramatic wrap-around design of Jae Lee featuring Roland having encounter with giant tiger in bright glowing colors: "They regarded each other". Housed in an orange snake-skin textured clamshell case; small matching limited edition label numbered 652 at bottom. Interior features fine black felt lining. Presented in matching snake-skin materials as boards, featuring matching spine titles and vignette of crow in black. Front panel of case features haunting shape-shifting half-human half crocodile skulled entity with thick heavy tale. Fine, signed limited edition in clamshell of this rarity. Table of Contents: "Foreword; Starkblast; The Skin-Man, Part One; The Wind Through the Keyhole; The Skin-Man, Part Two; Storm's Over; Afterword". In The Wind Through the Keyhole, we join Roland and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress on the Path of the Beam. As they shelter from the screaming wind and snapping trees, Roland tells them not just one strange tale, but two – and in doing so sheds fascinating light on his own troubled past. In Roland's early days as a gunslinger, in a guilt ridden year following his mother's death, he is sent by his father to investigate a recent slaughter. At this ranch, Roland discovers a bloody churn of bootprints, clawed animal tracks and terrible carnage - evidence that the 'skin-man', a shape shifter, is at work. There is only one surviving witness: a brave but terrified boy called Bill Streeter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, 'The Wind Through The Keyhole.' 'A person's never too old for stories,' he says to Bill. 'Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.' 336 pages. Insured post.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Lee, Jae; Chung, June (Coloring). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.