Stephen King, Glenn Chadbourne "The Dark Man" Tray-cased Signed Limited Edition No. 141 of 500 w/Matching Numbers Artwork Portfolio [Double-Remarqued]

Personally signed by Stephen King and Glenn Chadbourne directly onto the limitation page. 

NUMBER 141 OF ONLY 500. TWO FULL COLOR REMARQUES, One in the book and one on the artwork portfolio cover page.

INCLUDES MATCHING NUMBER 141 ARTWORK PORTFOLIO. 

Cemetery Dance Publications, Forest Hill, MD. July 2013. "The Dark Man: An Illustrated Poem" By Stephen King. Illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne. Signed limited edition. Signed by both the author and illustrator directly onto the limitation page. 88 pages. Unique oblong 9" x 5 3/4" design. Smooth dark brown leather, or leather-like boards, bright gilt and brown cover and spine titles. Dynamic wrapper design and titles with two Chadbourne scenes at front and back panels of shadowy figure on train and track. Housed in a beautiful dark brown traycase with matching title design at cover and spine area. Fine magnetic flap for perfect sealed closure. Interior of case features perfect slot for book, lined in dark brown velour, and has attached dark brown satin ribbon marker.

Includes Signed Limited Edition Artwork Portfolio (Number 141 of 500).

"Randall Flagg came to me when I wrote a poem called 'The Dark Man' when I was a junior or senior in college. It came to me out of nowhere, this guy in cowboy boots who moved around on the roads, mostly hitchhiking at night, always wore jeans and a denim jacket. I wrote the poem in the college restaurant on the back of a placemat, but that guy never left my mind."
— Stephen King

This edition was published in four states:

1) World's First Edition, First Printing Trade Hardcover

2) World's First Edition, First Printing SLIPCASED trade hardcover featuring a different dust jacket and shrink-wrapped with a deluxe custom-made slipcase and a collectible Glenn Chadbourne bookmark featuring a Dark Man drawing that doesn't appear in the book

3) Traycased Signed Limited Edition of only 500 copies printed in two colors on a specialty paper stock, bound in a fine material with two-color hot foil stamping, a different dust jacket, a color frontispiece, satin ribbon page marker, and embossed endpapers, signed by Stephen King and Glenn Chadbourne

4) Signed Lettered Edition of only 52 copies printed in two colors on a specialty paper stock and bound in two different fine materials with gilded page edges, a different dust jacket, a different color frontispiece, a satin ribbon page marker, imported endpapers, a hand-drawn Dark Man illustration by Glenn Chadbourne in every copy, all protected in a custom deluxe traycase, signed by Stephen King and Glenn Chadbourne

The Limited and Lettered Editions SOLD OUT in less than two hours. A second printing of the trade hardcover was ordered the week before publication due to a surge in orders from retailers.

Key Details About Our World's First Edition:

• printed in a very limited and collectible print run — a tiny fraction of what a New York publisher normally prints for a new release

• heavily illustrated — a story told through the blending of King's words and the artwork

• the only trade hardcover edition planned at this time in any market

• beautifully designed with both the collector and general reader in mind

• the first 5,000 copies of World's First Edition, First Printing trade hardcover will be given the deluxe treatment: shrink-wrapped with a different dust jacket, a custom-made slipcase, and a collectible Glenn Chadbourne bookmark featuring a Dark Man drawing that doesn't appear in the book.

"The Dark Man"

Stephen King first wrote about the Dark Man in college after he envisioned a faceless man in cowboy boots and jeans and a denim jacket forever walking the roads. Later this dark man would come to be known around the world as one of King's greatest villains, Randall Flagg, but at the time King only had simple questions on his mind: Where was this man going? What had he seen and done? What terrible things...?

i have ridden rails...

More than forty years after Stephen King first wrote his breathtaking poem "The Dark Man," Glenn Chadbourne set out to answer those questions in this World's First Edition hardcover featuring more than 70 full-page illustrations from the talented artist behind The Secretary of Dreams.

i have slept in glaring swamps...

This Cemetery Dance Publications hardcover is a true marriage of words and art, with Chadbourne pulling the images from King's imagination and illustrating them in magnificent detail. This incredible blending of King's words with Chadbourne's art creates a unique page turning experience you can return to again and again, always finding new details hidden in every illustration. You'll discover hidden layers and mysterious secrets for years to come.

i am a dark man...

So who is the Dark Man and why is he traveling the country? The answers are terrifying....

This Signed Limited Edition has been personally Signed & Remarqued by the Artist, Glenn Chadbourne.

Own An Original Piece of Work By The Artist

The full color remarque adds a special value to your book because it is a one-of-a-kind original. This detailed finished full color drawing ties in with the subject matter of the edition and is personally and individually drawn by Glenn Chadbourne. Remarquing is only done on a select few books of each edition, thus making them highly collectible.

Besides enhancing the appearance and collectibility of your edition, it gives you the unique opportunity to own an original piece of work by the artist.

This full color remarque is the perfect complement to the book and fits with the overall theme.

Signed Limited Edition Artwork Portfolio (Number 141 of 500)

Cemetery Dance Publications (July 1, 2014) "The Dark Man" by Stephen King. Deluxe Oversized Signed Limited Edition Artwork Portfolio. 100 Drawings & Paintings Including 15 Brand New Pieces Never Before Seen Anywhere. Signed by Glenn Chadbourne and Limited to Just 500 Sets.

FROM THE PUBLISHER:

Housed In a Deluxe Two Piece Slipcase Unlike Any We've Ever Produced Before!

If you're a fan of Stephen King's dark imagination, Glenn Chadbourne's artwork, and/or our collectible Artwork Portfolios, we have a deal you won't be able to beat!

We've made exclusive arrangements with Glenn Chadbourne to collect 100 pieces of artwork from The Dark Man by Stephen King into one giant artwork portfolio, which is SIGNED by Chadbourne on a special signature sheet and limited to a one-time production run of just 500 sets. These special artwork portfolios will never be reprinted or reissued.

We're doing something completely different for this artwork portfolio, too. Because the stack of artwork is way too thick for a regular portfolio folder, we've designed a special TWO PIECE slipcase system that will hold the artwork in a vertical position to protect it from damage.

In addition, we're matching the production materials from the Limited Edition traycase of The Dark Man for these beautiful two piece slipcases, so these artwork portfolios will be the perfect addition to your collection!

Included in each portfolio will be:

* 71 pieces of black and white interior artwork from the book
* the 2 author and artist "photos" as drawn by Glenn Chadbourne for the book
* the artwork for the 2 signature sheets for the signed editions without any of the text
* 8 pieces of full color artwork from the book including cover paintings, back cover paintings, frontispieces from the signed editions
* 13 brand new black and white drawings that did not appear in the book
* 2 brand new COLOR drawings that did not appear in the book
* the full color alternate artwork we did not use for the bookmark for the Slipcased Trade Hardcover
* a brand new piece of artwork for the portfolio's exclusive signature sheet that will be signed and numbered by Glenn Chadbourne

So this set includes EVERY piece of artwork in the book, including the signature sheets that will only ever be seen by the collectors who were lucky enough to snag a copy of the Limited Edition or Lettered Edition before they sold out, along with 15 new pieces that have never been published anywhere before!

Remember, this is a ONE-TIME printing of the artwork portfolio and we will NOT be printing more!

Personally signed by Glenn Chadbourne directly onto the first numbered print.

The full color drawing of the snake head is an original artist remarque not found in the other portfolios! 

About Glenn Chadbourne

Glenn Chadbourne's artwork has appeared in more than thirty books as well as dozens of magazines and comics. His trademark pen and ink drawings have accompanied the works of today's hottest genre authors. His other Stephen King Limited Editions with Cemetery Dance Publications include two volumes of The Secretary of Dreams. Glenn lives in Newcastle, Maine, with his wife Sheila.

Glenn Chadbourne is an American artist. He lives in Newcastle, Maine. He is best known for his work in the horror and fantasy genres, having created covers and illustrated books and magazines for publishers such as Cemetery Dance Publications, Subterranean Press, and Earthling Publications. Mr. Chadbourne is known for his sense of humour and down to earth manner, as well as the stark honesty of his work.

Glenn Chadbourne attended Lincoln Academy before continuing his education at The Portland School of Art. He also attended the University of Maine at Augusta, as well as the University of Southern Maine.

His first published work was in the late 1980s for the Stephen King related newsletter called Castle Rock. He won a contest that called for artists to submit something Stephen King related.

He wrote, illustrated, and self-published a few comics called ChillVille and Farmer Fiend's Horror Harvest in the early 1990s. He eventually met Rick Hautala and was asked to illustrate his short story collection Bedbugs. After Cemetery Dance Publications printed Bedbugs in 1999, things began to click for Mr. Chadbourne, and he has since illustrated work for many of the top names in the horror genre.

He recently illustrated The Secretary of Dreams: Volume 1, a graphic collection of Stephen King stories that was published by Cemetery Dance Publications in 2006 in three limited editions. Volume Two was announced as being drawn by Glenn Chadbourne in early 2007.

Source: Wikipedia

Stephen King

Stephen King has written more than forty novels and two hundred short stories. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and he also received the O. Henry Award for his story "The Man in the Black Suit." He has released numerous special editions with Cemetery Dance Publications including From a Buick 8, The Secretary of Dreams (Volume One), The Secretary of Dreams (Volume Two), It: The 25th Anniversary Special Limited Edition, Doctor Sleep, the World's First Edition of Blockade Billy, and Full Dark, No Stars. King lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

Reviews

"While the publication of a new work by King is quite a coup by Cemetery Dance, I am more impressed with the work of Chadbourne. Each time I look over the pages, I find something new and enticing. This is a unique volume that ties the art to the words and gives a unique vision of two masters: King showing a glimpse of the beginnings of this unique talent that has entertained us for years; and, Chadbourne showing his mastery at understanding the written word and turning it into a not to be forgotten picture that enhances the experience. King, Chadbourne, and Cemetery Dance are a trio to contend with and this volume is a triumph in the trio of poetry, painting, and publishing. Don't miss this one of a kind work.
— Barry Hunter, The Baryon Review

"Purportedly scrawled by a college-age King on the back of a restaurant place mat, this glowering poem introduced a wandering character of ultimate evil, who would later mature into Randall Flagg of The Stand, The Eyes of the Dragon, and the Dark Tower series. Therefore, even though this is a curiosity, it's a significant one in the King mythos, and Chadbourne's black-and-white interpretation gives the spare text just the rotten juice it craves. The poem itself is the sort of metaphysical, apocalyptic piece you might expect from the late 1960s, but is nonetheless evocative. It begins, "i have stridden the fuming way / of sun-hammered tracks and / smashed cinders," as we follow the slow nighttime progress of a smudgy man traversing a moonlit America of busted merry-go-rounds, dilapidated trains, and agonized cemeteries. Wordless pages fill out the five-stanza poem, with Chadbourne's flat, snarled pencilwork hiding snakes, spiders, rats, and faces in every twisted tableau. It's all suitably ominous, and bewitched fans will be able to draw a direct line between this and The Gunslinger (1982)."
— Daniel Kraus, Booklist

"The poem itself is told from The Dark Man's point-of-view, and it's an effectively chilling piece of work. The world he describes is not unlike most King settings, a place where mundane sights like all-night filling stations and wheat fields exist beneath an ominous 'savage sickle moon,' and where sits 'a gutted columned house leeched with vines.' It's strong imagery, and it's easy to see how aspects of the character bled over into King's later work... But where The Dark Man really comes to life is in the marriage of King's text to Glenn Chadbourne's stark, brutal imagery. Thumbing through the book you can almost feel a cold October wind coming off the pages, and you can almost smell the desperation and fear permeating the desolate, broken landscape. Chadbourne's distinctive style has graced a number of King/Cemetery Dance projects, but never has it felt like a more perfect fit than it does here. The drawings are dense, packed with details that seem to shift and flow of their own accord so that each time you study the pages you see something else. It may not be for everybody, but a book like this is sure to please adventurous readers looking for new insight into one of King's most well-known creations. The Dark Man is a moody leap of faith by the creators and the publisher that pays off handsomely in the end."
— Blu Gilliand, The October Country