signed first edition
1998 · (New York)
by King, Stephen
(New York): Scribner, 1998. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Inscribed first printing of King's middle-career masterpiece, winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award. BAG OF BONES, King's first novel published by Scribner after leaving Viking, marked the beginning of a new period of productivity and critical acclaim for an author who had long been classed as a mere crowd-pleaser. Packed with allusions to high-, low-, and middle-brow culture — Melville and Tales From the Crypt, Du Maurier and Guns N' Roses — and starring a Maine novelist with writer's block, BAG OF BONES is both an absorbing novel and (truncated)