Carrie [Early Trade Printing]

King, Stephen

Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1974

About this Item

1974 at copyright; no other dates, indications. Early trade printing matching original first edition in design and dimensions. Maroon full-cloth boards, gilt spine titles, fine. Deckled pages, fine; no writing. White endpapers. Code Z46 at page 199. Dust wrapper, fine; unclipped 14.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Features the original first edition jacket art by Alex Gotfryd of Carrie eerily peering out from behind door. Black on white stylized spine titles wrapping around to blurb at back panel. Rare bright and crisp early trade printing in near fine original wrapper. Stephen King's monumental and highly influential first novel of psychic terror. Carrie was the odd one at school; the one whose reflexes were always off in games, whose clothes never really fit, who never got the point of a joke. And so she became the joke, the brunt of teen-aged cruelties that puzzled her as much as they wounded her. If You've Got A Taste For Terror. Take Carrie To The Prom. Apprx. 5 34" x 8 1/2" design. Printed in the United States of America. 199 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Carrie [Early Trade Printing]
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York
• Publication Date: 1974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Gottfryd, Alex (Jacket Design)
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book