Carrie.
"People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it": First Edition of Stephen King’s First Book Carrie; Lengthily Inscribed in the Month of Publication
Carrie.
KING, Stephen.
Item Number: 3885
New York: Doubleday, 1974.
First edition stated on copyright page and “P6” in the gutter of page 199. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author in the month of publication, “For Charlie and Shirley, best wishes – and I hope you enjoy my book as much as I enjoyed writing it- and as much as I’ve enjoyed all of Ray’s and Sarah Jones oldtown friends. Best wishes, Stephen King April 16,1974.” The release date of Carrie was April 5, 1974; this copy was inscribed just 11 days later. This present copy is the earliest Stephen King inscription we have encountered. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light wear to the crown and a few closed tears.
Stephen King has been read by more people than any living author, and more than most dead ones. As Don Heron commented in "The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural," King specializes in "contemporary American scenes, everyday parents and kids and teenagers, vulgarly realistic language - a believable setting awaiting the coming of terror." He has become the most popular horror writer of all time. Several adaptations of Carrie have been released, including a 1976 feature film, a 1988 Broadway musical, a 1999 feature film sequel, a 2002 television movie, and a 2013 feature film remake.
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