Stephen King "Duma Key" Signed First Edition dj/HC, Near Fine/Fine

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Personally signed by Stephen King directly into the book on the title page. This is a genuine autograph by Stephen King and not a facsimile, stamp, or auto-pen. No bookplates. Beautiful signature presentation in bold ink.

Condition: Near Fine/Fine. There is only a minor mark to the page edges of the book. A wonderful bright clean copy. Free of markings, writings, or stamps. No bookplates attached or signs of any removed. No bumped corners. Dust jacket is now protected in new Mylar sleeve.

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Duma Key: Where It All Began

A Note from Chuck Verrill, the Longtime Editor of Stephen King

In the spring of 2006 Stephen King told me he was working on a Florida story that was beginning to grow on him. "I'm thinking of calling it Duma Key," he offered. I liked the sound of that--the title was like a drumbeat of dread. "You know how Lisey's Story is a story about marriage?" he said. "Sure," I answered. The novel hadn't yet been published, but I knew its story well: Lisey and Scott Landon--what a marriage that was. Then he dropped the other shoe: "I think Duma Key might be my story of divorce."

Pretty soon I received a slim package from a familiar address in Maine. Inside was a short story titled "Memory"--a story of divorce, all right, but set in Minnesota. By the end of the summer, when Tin House published "Memory," Stephen had completed a draft of Duma Key, and it became clear to me how "Memory" and its narrator, Edgar Freemantle, had moved from Minnesota to Florida, and how a story of divorce had turned into something more complex, more strange, and much more terrifying.

If you read the following two texts side by side--"Memory" as it was published by Tin House and the opening chapter of Duma Key in final form--you'll see a writer at work, and how stories can both contract and expand. Whether Duma Key is an expansion of "Memory" or "Memory" a contraction of Duma Key, I can't really say. Can you?

--Chuck Verrill