"DEAD MAN WALKING!": FIRST SEPARATE HARDCOVER EDITION

KING, Stephen. The Green Mile. (Burton, Michigan): Subterranean Press, 2006. Six volumes. Slim octavo, original silver-stamped green cloth, original matching slipcase. $1200.

Limited tenth anniversary edition of one of Stephen King's most famous works, the only hardcover printing done in the style of the original six-part serialized run, with more than 60 drawings by Mark Geyer and an introduction by Ralph Vicinanza.

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for best novel in 1996, The Green Mile is today equally well known for the award-winning 1999 film starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan. The story originally appeared in 1996 in six self-contained monthly installments inspired by Dickens' serialized novels; in 2006, Subterranean Press published this 10th Anniversary Edition of 2000 copies. This first separate hardcover edition reproduces the original six-volume format and adds more than 60 drawings by Mark Geyer as well as an introduction by Ralph Vicinanza. Vicinanza notes that while publishers were skeptical about the format, King "delivered six separate stories, each with a satisfying ending, as well as an overall story that unifies them… In the end, The Green Mile was an enormous success."

A fine, beautiful set.