Stephen King "From a Buick 8" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA [Fine/Fine]

Personally signed and dated by Stephen King directly onto the title page, on the month and year of publication.

Scribner (September 24, 2002). Stephen King "From A Buick 8". Hardcover with dust-jacket. Not price clipped. Signed and dated by the author on 9/24/02. Full number line as required on the copyright page for a first printing. The dust-jacket is now protected in a brand new Mylar archival sleeve. This is Stephen King's best-selling novel. 368 pages. ISBN 978-0-7432-1137-6. Bookseller issued COA.

From A Buick 8

From a Buick 8 is a novel by horror writer Stephen King. Published on September 24, 2002, this is the second novel by Stephen King to feature a supernatural car (the first one being Christine, which like this novel is set in Pennsylvania); King's short story "Trucks" also involved paranormal events involving vehicles. According to the book sleeve: "From a Buick 8 is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable." The title comes from Bob Dylan's song "From a Buick 6", and is also clearly an homage to H.P. Lovecraft's short story "From Beyond", with which the novel shares thematic and plot elements. Award winning independent publisher Cemetery Dance Publications published a signed Limited Edition of the book.

Stephen King says that he was inspired to write this book on a car trip he took in 1999. During the trip he stopped at a gas station in western Pennsylvania. While looking around he slipped and almost fell into a stream of water. The thought that he might not have been discovered until a much later time led him to the plot of the story. In the novel King describes a fatal automobile accident, and coincidentally King himself was the victim of a bad accident that almost killed him late in 1999. However, he said that he did not change any of the details in the novel to match his accident.

Bibliographical details

• Author: Stephen King
• Country: United States
• Language: English
• Genre: Science fiction novel
• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: September 24, 2002
• Media type: Print (Hardcover)
• Pages: 368
• ISBN: 978-0-7432-1137-6

Stephen King

Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His first crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges, MR MERCEDES, won the Edgar Award for best novel and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award. Both MR MERCEDES and END OF WATCH received the Goodreads Choice Award for the Best Mystery and Thriller of 2014 and 2016 respectively.

King co-wrote the bestselling novel Sleeping Beauties with his son Owen King, and many of King's books have been turned into celebrated films and television series including The Shawshank Redemption, Gerald's Game and It.

King was the recipient of America's prestigious 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American Letters. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives with his wife Tabitha King in Maine.