A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing of The Dark Half by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=stephen+king&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen King</a>.<ul><li>Stephen King (American).</li><li>United States: Viking Press, 1989.</li><li>Signed and dated 2/8/90 by Stephen King to the title page.</li><li>In the unclipped dust wrapper.</li></ul>

The Dark Half | Signed First Edition

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing of Misery by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Stephen+King&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen King</a>, inscribed by King to actor and filmmaker <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Clint+Eastwood&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Clint Eastwood</a>.<ul><li>Stephen King (American).</li><li>United States: Viking, 1987.</li><li>Inscribed on the title page, ‘For Clint [Eastwood]/Best wishes from your #1 fan - /Stephen King/ 1/17/96/.'</li><li>In the original unclipped dust wrapper.</li></ul> Clint Eastwood was a major inspiration for one of Stephen King’s most iconic characters: Roland Deschain, the gunslinger from The Dark Tower series. King has openly acknowledged that Roland was modeled after the classic "Man with No Name" persona Eastwood portrayed in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns. Roland shares Eastwood’s stoic demeanor, rugged morality, and lone-wolf attitude. King essentially took that Western archetype and placed it in a dark, fantastical world—blending Eastwood’s image with epic fantasy and horror. An exceptional association copy.&nbsp;

Misery | First Edition Inscribed to Clint Eastwood

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing set of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=stephen+king&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen King</a>'s The Dark Tower series.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 9 volumes.</li><li>Stephen King (American).</li><li>Includes: The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower, with The Wind Through the Keyhole, and related short story The Little Sisters of Eluria as issued in Legends.</li><li>Each is in its original dust jacket.</li></ul> All volumes are first editions, first printings, a notably scarce assembly when found complete in such uniform and well-preserved condition. King’s genre-defining fusion of fantasy, western, and speculative fiction unfolds across these volumes in an expansive narrative centered on Roland Deschain and his quest for the Dark Tower.

The Dark Tower Series | First Editions

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Stephen+King&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen King</a>'s first published work The Glass Floor, printed as part of Startling Mystery Stories, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">inscribed</a> by the author.<ul><li>Stephen King (American).</li><li>The Glass Floor, in Startling Mystery Stories, Fall No. 6.</li><li>New York: ACME, 1967.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo pulp magazine.</li><li>Signed and inscribed by the author in blue ink on the opening page of his story, “To Debi, All best, Stephen King, 7/25/82.”</li><li>Original pictorial wrappers.</li></ul> The first commercial Stephen King appearance, featuring the first published of his short stories, originally written while still a student and preceding his breakthrough novel Carrie (1974). The Glass Floor represents an important formative work, illustrating themes and narrative techniques that would later come to define King’s career. Copies of this fragile pulp magazine seldom survive in collectible condition, having been produced as ephemeral reading material. The present example is further distinguished by King’s signature and dated inscription from 1982, a period during which he had already achieved international recognition, lending an added layer of historical interest. A scarce and evocative item, combining an early appearance in a now-elusive pulp publication with a contemporary authorial inscription.

The Glass Floor | Inscribed by the Author

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing of The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=stephen+king&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen King</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">inscribed</a> by the author, and accompanied by a letter from King's secretary.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 1 book and 1 postcard.</li><li>Stephen King (American).</li><li>United States: Grant, 1987.</li><li>Signed to the front endpaper, ‘For Cassey Clark-/With best wishes/from Roland...and me,/Stephen King/19/27/92.'</li><li>In the clipped wrapper.</li></ul> Accompanying the book is a signed postcard, stating, ‘Dear Cassy, Enclosed please find your books which Stephen has signed for you. Please be advised that he has had to set a two-book limit, total due to the large amount of requests he receives. Thank you and enjoy. Nancy.’ Nancy Gilbert worked as a secretary and administrative assistant to Stephen King during the earlier years of his career. She was involved in handling correspondence and office administration at a time when King’s popularity — and fan mail — was expanding rapidly. Her name appears in acknowledgements in some of King’s earlier books and is occasionally encountered in relation to typed letters or office responses sent on King’s behalf. The 'Roland' in the inscription refers to The Dark Tower’s protagonist, Roland Deschain.

The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three | Signed First Edition Book, with a Letter from the Author's Secretary

A signed <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of Night Shift by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=Stephen%20King&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen King</a>.<ul><li>Stephen King (American).</li><li>Introduction by John D. MacDonald.</li><li>Garden City, New York:&nbsp;Doubleday &amp; Company, Inc.,&nbsp;1978.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>336 pages.</li><li>Signed by King and dated "10/12/79" on front free endpaper.</li><li>Spine tan with black and brown lettering, dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut.</li></ul>

Night Shift

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing of Night Shift by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Stephen%20King&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen King</a>.<ul><li>Stephen King (American).</li><li>Introduction by John D. MacDonald.</li><li>Garden City, New York:&nbsp;Doubleday &amp; Company, Inc.,&nbsp;1978.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>336 pages.</li><li>Signed by King on title page.</li><li>Spine tan with black and brown lettering, dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut.</li></ul>

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

Carey, Henry Charles and Isaac Lea A Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas, being a guide to the history of North and South America, and the West Indies: exhibiting an accurate account of the discovery, settlement, and progress, of their various kingdoms, states, provinces, &c. Together with the wars, celebrated battles, and remarkable events, to the year 1822. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1822 Folio (445 x 302 mm). Mounted on guards throughout, with letterpress title, 1p. "Advertisement," 1p. "Contents" and "Index," letterpress text leaves, and 46 double-page hand-colored engraved maps of America, all but one with borders of letterpress descriptive text, 1 uncolored double-page engraved view showing the comparative heights of mountains throughout the world, 1 hand-colored double-page engraved table showing the comparative lengths of the principal rivers worldwide, 5 letterpress tables, 4 of which are double-page and 3 hand-colored; some faint toning, occasional spots and stains, dampstaining in the margins, some chips and tears mostly at edges, many of the tears closed, the tear on map no. 16 affecting the map title. Bound to style in half dark blue straight grained morocco, contemporary marbled paper covered boards, gilt lettered and decorated spine; boards rubbed with a few infill restorations to old losses. First edition of one of the most important early atlases printed in the United States: a handsome atlas of the Americas, with individual hand-colored maps of each state in the Union, including a seminal map of the West by Stephen H. Long. At the time of publication this was the best and most detailed atlas to be produced in the United States. Fielding Lucas, the major Baltimore printer, was the principal engraver and substantial historical background text accompanies each map. Among the most noted maps in the atlas is Major Stephen H. Long's "Map of Arkansas and other Territories of the United States." That map, which depicts the Missouri basin between Nashville in the east, the Mandan villages in the north and the Rocky Mountains in the west, was based on the surveys conducted by Long on his expeditions of 1819 and 1820. The map published in Carey & Lea's atlas preceded the official account of that expedition by expedition botanist Edwin James, which included a smaller map with similar detail (titled "Country drained by the Mississippi Western Section"). Carey and Lea's 1822 publication of James Account perhaps explains the prior inclusion of this map with Long expedition information in their atlas. On this famous map is the printed legend, which would perpetuate a myth for many years to come, identifying the high plains as the "Great American Desert." Carey and Lea's atlas was first issued, as here, in 1822; an 1823 second issue followed, largely the same as the first but with a new title and revised states of several maps and text leaves (generally minor, including additional shading to maps and improved resetting of several text leaves). REFERENCES Howes C133; Phillips 1373a; Sabin 15055

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