The Shining.

KING, Stephen.

$7,800.00

Item Number: 146348

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1977.

First edition of King’s third novel. Octavo, original half black cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Stephen King 11/18/82.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket illustration by Dave Christensen. Jacket typography by Al Nagy. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example.

"The fact is that The Shining is a masterwork, a bold product of an original vision, a novel of astonishing passion, urgency, tenderness, understanding, and invention In its uniting of an almost bruising literary power, a deep sensitivity to individual experience, and its operatic convictions, it is a very significant work of art" (Peter Straub). Made into the 1980 movie directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Jack Nicolson and Shelley Duvall; it was later made into a 1997 TV mini-series starring Steven Weber and Rebecca De Mornay and with a cameo appearance by King himself.