CARRIE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed, signed and dated by King on the front free end paper to a well known early fan. Signed on 10/12/79, likely at the World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island October 12-14, 1979. The author's first book. The correct first printing with "first edition" on copyright page, printing code "P6" on page 199, and dust jacket priced $5.95. Basis for the well received 1976 Brian de Palma film which made the novel a bestseller in its mass market paperback reprint format and made King a celebrity writer. A remake was broadcast in 2002 as a made for television film. The original film also spawned a sequel "The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999). [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-231. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-162. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 197-202. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-129]. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a small abrasion at the upper front flap affecting the .95 of the $5.95. A lovely copy. (31228). Item #31228
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