?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
KING, STEPHEN. The Shining. 8vo, publisher's printed blue wrappers, black cloth backstrip, front wrap with glue residue from publisher's announcement (present but loose), inked song verse in unknown hand to recto of final leaf and front and back of rear wrapper; clipped promotional slip cellotaped to half-title, first three leaves stapled together with corresponding small puncture to fourth. (ESS) New York: Doubleday & Company, 1977
scarce uncorrected proof, inscribed by the author: "For Billy - / Best wishes... / and / shine on! / Stephen King / 4/26/83." One of perhaps only 28 copies; according to ABPC and Rare Book Hub the first auction appearance of this issue.
