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NIGHT SHIFT
by King, Stephen
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with slight shelf wear to the corner tips and spine ends. Uncommon signed and in nice conditio
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with slight shelf wear to the corner tips and spine ends. Uncommon signed and in nice condition. (31884). Octavo, cloth-backed boards. Inscribed and signed by King on the front free end paper, and dated by him in 1983. The author's fourth book and first collection of short fiction. More than half the contents (twelve of twenty stories) have become the basis for films; The Boogeyman, Children of the Corn, The Last Rung on the Ladder, The Lawnmower Man, Graveyard Shift, Sometimes They Come Back, The Mangler, Night Surf, Strawberry Spring, Trucks, I Know What You Need and The Woman in the Room. Children of the Corn and Sometimes They Come Back have spawned numerous film sequels. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-170. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1116-20. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-132.
Synopsis
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are Full Dark, No Stars; Under the Dome; Just After Sunset; Duma Key; Lisey’s Story; Cell; and the concluding novels in the Dark Tower saga: Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower. His acclaimed nonfiction book On Writing is also a bestseller. In 2003, he was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2007 he received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
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Details
- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31884
- Title
- NIGHT SHIFT
- Author
- King, Stephen
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with slight shelf wear to the corner tips and spine ends. Uncommon signed and in nice conditio
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Horror & Supernatural . Signed . SC . Film Source
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2017
Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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