"ONE OF KING'S TRUE MASTERPIECES": SIGNED LIMITED GIFT EDITION OF STEPHEN KING'S INSOMNIA, IN DELUXE LEATHERETTE BINDING

KING, Stephen. Insomnia. Shingletown, California: Mark V. Ziesing, 1994. Thick octavo, full burgundy leatherette gilt, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket, original full leather tray case. $3500.

Signed first limited gift edition of this Stephen King classic, number 520 of 1250 deluxe leather-bound copies signed on the limitation page by Stephen King, illustrator Phil Hale, and designer Arnie Fenner, in original gilt-leather tray case.

"A spiritual successor to It, and a Dark Tower novel in all but name, this meditation on time, ageing, free will and predestination is one of King's true masterpieces" (Guardian). King's return to long-form horror, following the shorter psychological thrillers Gerald's Game and Dolores Claiborne, features numerous references to the author's other works as well as direct connections to the mythos of the world of Roland the Gunslinger: "Insomnia is a unique hybrid, at once one of King's more down-to-earth and one of his more 'cosmic' novels … due to its explicit ties to King's The Dark Tower series" (The Stephen King Universe, 158). This is the signed limited gift edition, published the same year as the regular gift edition but with a special limitation page and a burgundy leatherette tray case; both were published the same year as Viking's first trade edition. Brooks A50.

A fine copy.