"A HAUNTED LOVE STORY": FIRST EDITION OF BAG OF BONES, SIGNED BY STEPHEN KING

KING, Stephen. Bag of Bones. (New York): Scribner, (1998). Octavo, original half white cloth gilt, original dust jacket, custom slipcase. $2000.

First edition of "one of King’s most accomplished novels," signed on the title page by the author.

"From his mint-fresh etching of spooky rural Maine to his masterful pacing and deft handling of numerous themes, particularly of the fragility of our constructs about reality and of love's ability to mend rifts in those constructs, this is one of King's most accomplished novels. It is his most personal as well, revealing… intimacies of the creative writing process: a passionate gift from a veteran author to all who care about the art and craft of storytelling" (Publishers Weekly). In 1999 the book won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel, and in 2011 it was adapted into a television miniseries starring Pierce Brosnan and Anika Noni Rose. The novel's many links to the overarching fictional world created by Stephen King include the presence of Ralph Roberts and Joe Wyzer (characters from Insomnia), the locations Derry, Maine (setting of IT) and Dark Score Lake (site of a critical moment in Gerald's Game) and references to events such as the fate of Thad Beaumont (protagonist of The Dark Half); at the center of the book is the summer cabin called Sara Laughs—the counterpart of Cara Laughs, the house owned by the metafictional version of Stephen King in his epic Dark Tower series. Brooks A65.

A fine signed copy.