LOT Old Heritage Auctions  /  2006 October Grand Format Autographs #629  / 

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Stephen King's The Plant Galley and Manuscript

Currency:USD Category:Books / Antiquarian & Collectible Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
Stephen King's The Plant Galley and Manuscript
<B>Stephen King's Galley and Typed Manuscript for <I>The Plant</B></I>.</B></I> An amazing peek into the publication process of the modern master of horror. Nothing says Christmas like a Stephen King yarn! If you were a friend of King's in the early 1980s, you may have gone to the mailbox one chilly, grey December afternoon to find a copy of <I>The Plant</B></I> in your mailbox. King sent the story in three separate installments between 1982 and 1985 as a Christmas card to his closest friends. The installments, each of 226 copies (200 numbered and 26 lettered editions), were self-published through King's Philtrum Press. In 2000, King re-released the story as an inexpensive Internet download, which people could pay for with a credit card or with a promise to send a check. King quickly suspended access to the downloadable version after the fifth installment due to widespread non-payment. Asked if he ever intends to finish the story, King says that "time will tell." Individual volumes of the original release of <I>The Plant</B></I> often sell for hundreds, even thousands of dollars. Rarer still is this lot, consisting of pre-publication corrected versions of the second and third installments of King's private masterpiece.<BR><B>Galley Proof for Part Two of <I>The Plant</B></I>.</B></I> Includes title page and pages Gal.1-8, Gal.10-17, no page Gal.9, (7.5" x 25"), folded, with handwritten annotations by Stephen King. Three annotations in pencil, one stating, "<I>GALLEY PROOF ANNOTATIONS BY S.K.</B></I>." Five annotations in black pen, three signed "<I>Steve</B></I>." This proof is in very good condition, despite the folds.<BR><B>Photocopy of the Original Typescript for Part Three of <I>The Plant</B></I>,</B></I> with original handwritten editorial annotations by King in pencil and green, blue, red, black, violet, and orange ink throughout. Included are pages 1-49 & 51-56, no page 50, plus the colophon and a photocopy of the corrected titlepage. Overall, this typescript is in very good condition, a real one-of-a-kind find from the modern era's dark-hearted answer to Charles Dickens.
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