First edition of King's sprawling and terrifying coming-of-age epic, set in Derry, Maine, where friendship is forever if the clown in the drains doesn't get you.
Near fine in fine jacket.
Price: $350.00
"Are you telling me you believe there was a vampire clown under the Main Stree Bridge?"
Of his lengthy, complex, and enduringly popular novel, King once said: "I think that IT is the most Dickensian of my books because of its wide range of characters and intersecting stories. The novel manages a lot of complexity in an effortless way that I often wish I could rediscover." The novel has been adapted for television and more recently as a two-part film; the titular entity's manifestation as Pennywise, once memorably incarnated by Tim Curry, is generally regarded as the most frightful of fictional clowns. Real ones are of course in a fear class of their own. A handsome copy of a King classic.
Read more: "Stephen King, The Art of Fiction No. 189," The Paris Review.
First printing. (New York): Viking, (1986). 9'' x 6''. Original quarter black cloth with black boards, stamped in metallic red. In original unclipped ($22.95) color pictorial jacket. 1138, [4]. Touches of shelfwear, faint soil to fore-edge. Bright and sharp overall.
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