THE SHINING

First edition with these illustrations). Limited edition. Publisher's original white faux leather, with silver and metallic blue titles to the spine and upper board, in the Don Maitz illustrated dustwrapper and white faux leather slipcase with silver and metallic blue titles to eh backstrip and left side. Textured endpapers. Illustrated with limitation page artwork by Glenn Chadbourne, eight full page colour plates by Don Maitz and four exclusive bonus scans of 'The Shining' from The Literary Guild Promotional Brochure. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very slightly rubbed dustwrapper, that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($95 to the upper front flap). Housed in the structurally sound slipcase, that just has a couple of light marks to the bottom edge.

'Deluxe Slipcased Gift Edition', issued in a print-run of 3000 copies. This was the third volume in the publisher's Stephen King 'Doubleday Years' collection. It includes the complete forty page prologue 'Before the Play', a deleted chapter 'After the Play' not found in King's archive (and therefore thought lost), and an essay 'The Shine Manuscript: An Early Draft of The Shining' by Jon Page. An attractive illustrated edition of Stephen King's classic horror novel that formed the basis of the 1980 film of the same name directed by Stanley Kubrick.