Night Shift
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1978.
First edition, first printing with code S52 in gutter of last page. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Bound in publisher's red paper-covered boards over black spine cloth lettered in gilt. Retrieved from the stolen James Strand collection, provenance bookplate to front pastedown. Trace of penciled bookseller inscription to half-title page, else Fine. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning, soiling, and edgewear and stray pencil mark to verso. Review slip, 1988 purchase slip, and police tags laid in.
A beautiful copy of King's first collection of short stories, featuring the first appearance of Jerusalem's Lot and The Woman in the Room. This book was one of many stolen from the house of fantasy and horror collector James Strand in the weeks following his death, and one of the few retrieved by the police. Brooks A7.1.
Price: $4,800