The Tommyknockers
Publication: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1987. First Edition.
Notes: "Tommyknockers is a forties-style science fiction tale in which the writer heroine discovers an alien spacecraft buried in the ground." King wrote the book "often working until midnight with my heart running at a hundred and thirty beats a minute and cotton swabs stuck up my nose to stem the coke-induced bleeding." (Quoted from King's On Writing, chapter 36).
558 pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition, red-letter issue (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1; all 750,000 or so copies of the book have a mistake on the last line, "permissions to come," which should have been removed when the book was printed). A fine, tight copy in a fine dust jacket. There are two variant jackets, both released at the same time, one with the author's name in red and one in gold. This is the red letter issue.
This copy comes from the collection of James Strand, whose impressive collection of horror books was stolen after he died. This is one of the books that the FBI found in the storage locker of a professional fence (now doing six years in the federal pen). The original evidence tag is laid in. The Strand estate bookplate is mounted on the front pastedown.
Item No: #209646
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