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King's colaboration with Maurice Sendak (The illustrator of Where the Wild things are) Hansel and Grettle has been released . You can pick up your copy on Amazon now!
First up there are a number of new books available for sale up in the Collector's Vault, at very competitive prices (as usual) including a couple really rare items! Additional photos and notes on condition are available when you click into a title. Please note that items are not considered sold until you've completed the checkout process. So if you have an item in the cart someone can beat you to it if they checkout faster.
Thank you everyone that came up and said hello at Comic-Con last week! I had a blast and I hope you all enjoyed the panel. For those that couldn't make it, in addition to the general Q&A we did a presentation on 1st editions. If you'd like to see the slide deck you can check it out here.It's very high level and geared mainly towards new collectors but worth a quick read if you're interested.
I have info and buying pages up for the recently released Folio Society edition of IT.
In site related news - this month I exclusively focused on revamping the remarques section. With the input of everyone who filled out the survey back in December and of one very motivated remarque collector (thank you Thomas J !) , I’ve worked to revamp the section in the following ways:
- Remarque pages are now listed now alphabetically by book instead of Illustrator.
- Thumbnails resized to be 25-33% bigger....this took DAYS of work, each remarque had to be manually opened, resized, placed, and uploaded, whew!
- If a book has multiple official illustrators (for example Dr. Sleep) remarques are divided by illustrator
- If there are over 5 remarques from the books' illustrator they now get their own page (if they were the actual illustrator), resulting in many more individual pages, instead of a huge "Random Remarques" page.
- Remarques that are still in the Random Remarques page are now sectioned out by illustrator.
There have been three Stephen King related releases this month, that's got to be a record, or close to it!
- Stephen King's latest book Never Flinch was released earlier this week. You can find the information page on it here.
- Carrie's Legacy from Lividian Publications is shipping now. It's a perfect candidate for the "Other Editions" section and you'll find an information page up on it here.
- The Stand is shipping from Cemetery Dance! Gift editions are first, a few hundred per week and the limited edition will ship later some this summer. (I read that they are waiting for cases to be finished on those). Even though not all editions are out, I've gone ahead and put both buying and information page up for the book. Limited and lettered values are estimates based on previous CD releases.
I have updated price range valuations for all US limited editions on the site. As usual some titles have gone up quite a bit, a few have stayed the same or even gone down slightly. Poke around the the specific info pages that interest you!
PS Publishing Firestarter - Rumor has it that PS Publishing will be announcing preorders for their printing of Firestarter in their weekly newsletter this weekend. I have to stress that I haven't seen this confirmed by anything official on the PS Publishing site, but let's just say I'll be paying extra close attention to their newsletter this week and I'd encourage you all to sign up. I'm not going to spam your inbox with my own dedicated newsletter one day after this one (if it happens), but I will put any info on the main page of the site and in the forums so check back regularly. As a reminder PS Publishing's website can get overwhelmed during SK releases and they've been doing pre-orders in waves to help mitigate that, so IF Firestarter is announced and you see it shows sold out, check back later in the day for another drop. Again I'll post any specific updates about that in this forum thread.
The shopping experience for books and slipcases on the site is now shopify based for a better user experience!
Did you guys know that our very own forum moderator, Ralph Mulleins, is a published author? He writes under the pen name Adam Kester and his new book titled When a Rabbit Screams is available as an ebook for just 99 cents! I picked up a copy myself a few days ago and it's next up on my reading list. A great way to support a fellow collector for the price of...well... I'm not even sure what else you can get for just 99 cents these days, a coke maybe :)
If you haven't seen, Lividian Publications is doing a pre-order for Carrie's Legacy which features art and essays from numerous writers offering their unique perspective on the novel's lasting impact on popular culture, the publishing world, and the horror genre. The print run will be limited to only as many copies as are pre-ordered. (note this is NOT signed by King)
Jerome Smith, the owner of thedarktower.org passed away a few days ago. Please take a minute to think of all he did for the community and likely for you individually, if not directly then via his amazing site.
I have something really neat to share with you. Fellow collector Daniel Carey recently went thru both the Philtrum Press and Viking editions of The Eyes of the Dragon and detailed out every... single... change.... in the text between these two editions! I'm talking over 800 differences between the two. So many that he also put together a shorter summary version for those that just want to see the main highlights. I've converted these to documents to PDF and have links to them on the information pages of the Philtrum Press and 1st edition info pages of the books. Head on over for some fascinating reading!
A few weeks ago I discovered an excellent but little known YouTube channel SKFirstEditions run by fellow collectors Mark and Noah. Among other topics, they have a fantastic video series on identifying US & UK 1st editions as well as a series on limited editions. It's got a little something for everyone but especially for you newer collectors. I'd highly recommend you take a few minutes to check it out. In fact I was so impressed with what Mark and Noah are doing that I reached out and I'm pleased to announce that over the next few weeks/months we're going to partner with SKFirstEditions to embed relevant videos from them directly onto the information pages of the site! We'll need a little time to settle on the right format and get the pages populated but I expect a number of 1st edition pages to have the new content by the next newsletter, stay tuned!
VeryFineBooks put up a nice collectors guide that some of you newer collectors out the may find helpful.
Kris from the SK Rare Editions Facebook group reached out to let me know a little bit about the group. It's a very active group of almost 3,000 collectors and is run specifically with rare SK items in mind. A lot of buying/selling and sharing of photos going on along with regular contests. If you're on FB do yourself a favor and check them out.
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