The Black House.

KING, Stephen & Peter Straub.

Item Number: 3518

New York: Random House, 2001.

First edition of this work by the author of Carrie. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Stephen King on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Some 20 years after the events of King and Straub's The Talisman (1984), Jack Sawyer, its 12-year-old hero, is 35 and retired (thanks to inherited wealth) from being the LAPD's whiz-kid homicide sleuth. "Two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game" (Washington Post).