Stephen king gentle reader12/30/2023 ![]() ![]() He is so well loved that any signed Stephen King book is valuable to collectors. Stephen King has signed thousands and thousands of books over the many decades of his career. In addition to the bookstore releases, virtually every Stephen King book has been released in special printings by small publishers, interesting or unusual or artistic versions of each book, usually with numbers or letters to make each copy unique, and almost always with his signature. The Phantasia Press Firestarter was the beginning of a long tradition of signed limited editions of Stephen King books. If one came on the market today, it might sell for, who knows, $30,000? $40,000? More? A numbered Firestarter occasionally turns up for a few thousand dollars. ![]() The lettered asbestos copies are almost never for sale. Phantasia also printed 725 numbered copies of Firestarter with a special dustjacket and slipcase. Such a great concept! Nobody ever saw one but at the time everyone knew about it. Well, it’s actually aluminum-coated cloth, but it was made to look like asbestos. That’s what you saw in bookstores.Īt about the same time, tiny publisher Phantasia Press produced 26 copies of Firestarter wrapped in asbestos. Viking published 100,000 copies of the trade edition of Firestarter in 1980. First editions of his early novels, when print runs were still small, have skyrocketed in value, as you’d expect.īut Stephen King also got involved early in a wonderful branch of the publishing industry devoted to signed limited editions. That’s related to the quality of his books, of course, the fact that so many people like them so much. He’s also one of the most collected authors today. He’s the best-known author in the world, more than 60 novels to his name, winner of a nearly infinite number of awards, widely respected for the quality of his writing and his work ethic. You might have heard about this guy Stephen King. ![]() Startling Mystery Stories issue number 6 is barely a magazine, more like a pamphlet, but it’s hard to find and valuable to people who care about such things. But Stephen King’s first published story – now that’s something special to collectors. ![]()
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