B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S * * * * H O L I D A Y G I F T S * 28 "THE WORLD HAD TEETH AND IT COULD BITE YOU WITH THEM ANYTIME IT WANTED": FIRST EDITION OF THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, SIGNED BY STEPHEN KING 28. KING, Stephen. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. New York, 1999. Octavo, original black and dark grey paper boards. $3250 First edition of this decidedly non-supernatural tale, signed by Stephen King. Published in part to celebrate King’s silver anniversary as a writer, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon “finds its fright factor not in the supernatural but in the demons within” (Entertainment Weekly). Its heroine is lost for a week “in the mosquito-infested forest with nothing but her wits, her Walkman and the pitching prowess of her hero, the dreamy Red Sox reliever Tom Gordon, to guide her” (New York Times). Brooks A67-1. Fine condition.
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