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Stephen King: Most expensive sales in 2023 (Number 8)

8. "Night Shift" First Edition, First Printing w/Custom Clamshell Case [Fine/Fine] - $3,000

The author's first short story collection. Winner of the Balrog Award for Best Collection and nominated as best collection in 1979 for the Locus Award and World Fantasy Award.

 

Collector's grade First Edition of Stephen King's first short story collection.

 

New York. Doubleday 1978. Stephen King "Night Shift". First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover book with dust-jacket. Red boards with black quarter binding. ISBN: 0-385-12991-2. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A collector's grade book of King's first short story collection. Octavo hardcover with tan dust jacket. King's fourth book. Ideal Fine/Fine original condition of a book that is now 45 years old.

 

The dust-jacket is now protected in a new Mylar acid-free archival sleeve.

 

First Edition, First Printing Issue points:

"FIRST EDITION" as stated on the copyright page.
$8.95 price on the dust-jacket
S52 code on page 336
ISBN: 0-385-12991-2 on the dust-jacket flap
Not a book club edition
Not price-clipped