Danse Macabre by Stephen
King
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First
Trade Edition Front Cover Limited
Edition Front Cover and Spine
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Danse Macabre by
Stephen King - First edition points of issue.
Pages:
400
Price:
$13.95
Publisher:
Everest House
Date
Published: 1981
Copyright
page: RRD281
First Edition Total
Publication: Approximately 60,000
First Edition
Points of Issue: RRD281 is printed on the
copyright page.
Size:
6.25" x 9.5"
Bound: Quater bound
in maroon cloth with red boards
Dedication: It's
easy enough - perhaps too easy - to memorialize the dead. This
book is for six great writers who are still alive. ROBERT
BLOCH, JORGE LUIS BORGES, RAY BRADBURY, FRANK BELKNAP LONG,
DONALD WANDREI, MANLY WADE WELLMAN
Limited or Special
Editions: This was Stephen King's first limited
edition, published by Everest House. There were two variations
of the signed limited editions lettered and
numbered.
The lettered edition with
matching traycase with only 15 copies available A-O signed by
Stephen King, Issued with glassine paper instead of a
dustjacket. The Glassine paper was very fragile. The limitation
page reads "This special edition of DANSE MACABRE is limited
to 250 copies numbered 1 to 250, and 15 for private
distribution lettered A-O signed by the author. No
____"
The limited edition with
slipcase and glassine paper was issued in a print-run of 250
signed and numbered copies. The limitation page reads "This
special edition of DANSE MACABRE is limited to 250 copies
numbered 1 to 250, and 15 for private distribution lettered A-O
signed by the author. No ____"
Description: One of
King's most famous quotes comes from this book: I recognize
terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the
reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to
horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the
gross-out. I'm not proud.
Initially the
book was an idea put forward by Bill Thompson, Stephen King's
editor at Doubleday, it eventually developed into one of the
best collections of horror anecdotes and memorabilia that has
ever been written.
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