King, Stephen (1977) ‘The Shining’, US first edition with a signed and inscribed boarding pass

Stephen King (1977) ‘The Shining‘, US first edition, first printing, published by Doubleday. Signed and inscribed by the author on a loosely inserted Delta Airlines boarding pass: “Catch me wearing a Hollywood-type chain and I will sign all of my worldly goods over to you | signed | Stephen King. august/ 3\ 1976” The Delta Pass belonged to Bill Thompson who was Stephen King’s first editor at Doubleday and therefore also edited The Shining.

Housed in a beautiful quarter-bound leather solander box.

Condition: a fine copy in near fine dust jacket. The book is square and tight, the boards clean. The spine’s lettering is NOT rubbed out as often seen but vibrant and fresh. The book bears no previous owner’s inscriptions, no bookplates and no stamps. It is NOT remaindered without any spray to the page block edges. No foxing. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped showing the correct USD 8.95 price on the flap. No chips with light fading to the spine. A beautiful specimen of a landmark book.

The Shining had a first edition print run of 25,000 copies which is low for Stephen King novels nowadays where the first print run goes into the hundreds of thousands if not millions.

The Shining is perhaps King’s most famous novel not least due to Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation (1980).