Just After Sunset: Stories [Signed First Edition]

King, Stephen

ISBN 10: 1416584080 / ISBN 13: 9781416584087

Published by Scribner, Publishers, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, 2008

About this Item

Stated First Scribner hardcover edition November 2008; full number-line beginning w/1. Signed by Stephen King at title page: "Stephen King". Very attractive. Signed at The Odyssey Bookshop of Hadley, Massachusetts on 11/06/2008 at a conversation and benefit with the master of horror. Includes folded color flyer, bookmark for event, and receipt of original purchase. Black boards, black textured spine wrap, metallic sunset-orange spine titles. Pages fine. Bind fine. Stunning dust wrapper, fine; unclipped 28.00, protected in new clear sleeve. Jacket design features orange holographic titles on black background wrapping around to black titles over orange. A beautifully signed, fine first edition. This is SK's classic short story collection set around the magic hour or twilight. A few scenarios: a book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well; an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle takes its rider on a captivating, and then terrifying, journey; a blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand; and, a psychiatric patient's irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside, or, keep the world from falling into oblivion. These are just a few of the yarns to be found. Title contents include: "Willa; The Gingerbread Girl; Harvey's Dream; Rest Stop; Stationary Bike; The Things They Left Behind; Graduation Afternoon; The Cat from Hell; The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates; Mute; Ayana; A Very Tight Place; and, Sunset Notes". Call it dusk or call it sunset, it's a time when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate into darkness and the living daylights can be scared right out of you. It is the perfect time for SK. "The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces." 367 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Seller Inventory # 020087

Bibliographic Details

Title: Just After Sunset: Stories [Signed First ...

Publisher: Scribner, Publishers, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

A collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Playboy, and McSweeney's, in a volume that includes such tales as "The Gingerbread Girl" and "N." 1,250,000 first printing.

Review:

'Edgy and haunting' (The Scotsman)

'Scary yet satisfying short stories, with the master of horror fiction at his very best.' (Daily Express)

Spooky, mysterious, gripping and satisfyingly scary (Sunday Telegraph)

His most accomplished work: 13 beautifully turned tales, no two of which are alike (Daily Express)

'Highly visual, darkly comic, exceedingly disturbing' (Observer)

King has the ability to capture the reader's imagination from the first page of each tale with his clever and terrifying storytelling. It is impossible to put the book down (Sun)

Nobody does it better than the master (Time Out)