Misery
(284 pages - © August 8th, 2018)

• Lettered edition of 26 copies - Signed by Stephen King, Rick Berry and Dave Christensen. It is printed letterpress on moldmade Arches wove paper with a deckled fore edge, and hand bound in full crimson goatskin leather. Endpapers are marbled, and made exclusively for this edition. The binding is sewn and rounded with a hollow back designed to prevent sagging to the page block. The edition includes an original signed frontispiece print pulled from an engraving by illustrator and designer Barry Moser. The print is signed by the artist. The title is made using six original Royal glass typewriter keys which are inset into the cover, and the letter designation is a Royal key inset into the lower back cover. The book is housed in a custom walnut wood box designed to resemble an original royal Model 10 packing crate, and features a black velvet-lined book bed. The box is laser engraved and handcrafted by Dick Olson at his workshop in Farmington, new Mexico. Issue Price $3,950. Current price = $24,000 - $28,000
  
  
  
• Numbered edition of 200 copies - Signed by Stephen King, Rick Berry and Dave Christensen. The first 185 copies are for sale and numbered in black. The remaining 15 copies are numbered in red and reserved for private distribution. It is a smyth-sewn quarter leather binding, with Japanese cloth boards and a gold stamped spine. The edition is printed letterpress on Cranes Lettra Pearl White cotton paper, and housed in a custom clamshell box with a leather spine label. Issue Price $525. Current Price = $7,000 - $9,500
  
  
  
• Gift edition of 1,250 copies - Signed by Rick Berry and Dave Christensen. The slipcased Artist Gift edition features a dust jacket with stunning wrap-around artwork by Berry. It is a smyth-sewn binding with full imperial cloth, two-hits stamping on front and spine, and is printed offset. It is the only edition of the three with the wrap-around dust jacket art. Issue Price $110. Current value = $400 - $550

Values for Misery last updated - March 2024

Owners of Suntup Edition's first publication The Eyes of the Dragon Art Portfolio had the opportunity to place their order before the general public and match their their number (1-185) and/or letter (A-Z) with that of the Signed Numbered Edition of Misery. At the time of the announcement there were a few EOTD Art Portfolios left which where quickly bought. Almost everyone that had a portfolio chose to get a copy of Misery leaving only a small handful left for general purchase.

In a first for SK gift editions, the Misery gift edition did not have a set print run when announced. Rather Suntup allowed a defined time for everyone to pre-order copies and built the print run around that. If you have taken you gift edition out of the shrinkwrap, take a minute to remove the dust jacket and look at the title debossed on the front to look like Royal typewriter keys!

Towards the release of the book, Misery Numbered edition owners were offered a choice of three different remarques. "Misery the Pig", "Annie Swinging the Axe" and " The Royal Typewriter". Total remarques offered were 50. Total ordered were 32, and it was all mixed between the three options. You can see most of them here.

Suntup announced that four pages in the Numbered edition of Misery appear out of sequence. This occurs between page 226 and 227 due to a binding error. Specifically, half of one of the signature sections were folded backwards, resulting in those pages being out of order. There are no missing or damaged pages; it is only these few pages that appear out of sequence. An errata sheet can be printed out here Also at the link you will find a second errata sheet detailing that a few numbered copies were done in blue ink.

Six unsigned prototypes were made, three with black keys and three with white keys. A set of three of the six were offered for sale in May of 2023 for $19,995 for the set.

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