NIGHT SHIFT.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by King: "To Lucile Wilson / With best wishes and / great affection from your son / Kirby and from me - / Stephen King / July 7, 1978." The author's fourth book and first collection of short fiction. Four of the stories were previously unpublished, all the rest first appeared in non-genre magazines. 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. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-170. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1116-20. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-132]. A fine copy in a nearly fine price clipped dust jacket with very mild shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips, a few light spots to upper front panel. (36139). Item #36139
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