Stephen King Writer (7 results)

DVD. Condition: Good. library discard, may contain stamps/stickers and protective plastic from circulation.

unknown_binding. Condition: New.

Condition: Very Good. 8 pages, with UK & US list of books. This is an original article separated from an issue of The Book & Magazine Collector publication. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Horror; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages). …

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Tasteful letterhead including the firm's device within an oval, printed in sepia. In good condition: on aged and lightly-worn paper. King was the leading London parliamentary bookseller, and it is interesting to see him apparently offering a work of his own to other publishers. The letter reads: 'Dear Sir | We beg to acknowledge with thanks your offer of a translation of Herculano's "O Monge de Cister," which we much regret our inability to accept - our hands being very full just now, & all our arrangements for some time to come made. Translations, too, are very risky speculations. | Yours obedt | Chatto & Windus'. …

The present item is part of a propaganda battle between King-Hall and Goebbels. The only other copy of the item located is at the German National Library, King-Hall having 'contrived to infiltrate', as his Oxford DNB entry has it, this 'German version' of his 'King-Hall News Letter' to 'individuals in the Reich, provoking a vehement reaction from Goebbels and Hitler himself'. See also the article in Time magazine, 7 August 1939: 'Last week all Europe was excited about the propaganda battle between England's Commander Stephen King-Hall and Germany's Paul Joseph Goebbels (TIME, July 31). As Commander King-Hall's fourth letter to his "dear German readers" reached Germany, Britishers received in their morning mail copies of a mimeographed pamphlet entitled News From Germany. Published by Dr. Goebbels' good friend H. R. Hoffmann of Starnberg,' The item is 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium on thin paper (for dropping from the air?). The first page carries the beginning of the letter (salutation: 'Lieber deutschen Leser'), in a facsimile of King-Hall's handwriting (but addressed in type from 162 Buckingham Palace Road, | London, S.W.1.'), the other three pages give the letter's continuation, closely printed in small type. The letter ends with a facsimile of King-Hall's autograph signature. Slug at bottom left of final page: 'L.C.P. - 5404'. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with slight rust-spotting from paperclip. The item is accompanied by a contemporary carbon typescript translation into English (9pp, 8vo), with the first page headed: 'D.M.T. | Trans. | Letter from Commander Stephen King-Hall.' The translation begins: 'Dear German Readers, | I cannot understand why Dr. Goebbels is considered so clever. Can the poor man not grasp that all the excitement over my letters will simply wake one question in you - "Why are the Nazis so afraid for me to read the letter of a former English Naval Officer?" And what will be your reply?' He gives examples of 'lies' by the Hitler, the Nazis and the German Government, from 'a Note to the English Government', 9 August 1935, to 15 March 1939, when 'German troops march into Czecho-Slovakia and annex Czech land'. The letter ends with three proposals 'in order to stop this race towards War': 'Would the Nazi-Regime allow such a thing? Though they say that it is high treason for a German to reply to this letter, I doubt it.'.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Beautifully signed by Joe Hill at signature page: "This signed edition has been specially bound by the publisher. 'Joe Hill.'" Stated First Edition at copyright page; full number-line beginning with 1. Black boards, blind-stamped cover design of serpent, raised charcoal colored spine titles, fine. Pages fine. Bind fine, square. Beautiful pictorial dust wrapper, fine; protected in new clear sleeve. Dynamic cover design of barrelling big rig. Book design by William Ruotto with dynamic slithering title page imagery and vignettes. Fine signed first edition. A dark and ingenius collection of 13 short stories from a master of a master of creeping terror! Scenarios include: a little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver fresh reads to the dead in "Late Returns." In "By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain," two young friends stumble on the corpse of a plesiosaur at the water's edge, a discovery that forces them to confront the inescapable truth of their own mortality . . . and other horrors that lurk in the water's shivery depths. And tension shimmers in the sweltering heat of the Nevada desert as a faceless trucker finds himself caught in a sinister dance with a tribe of motorcycle outlaws in "Throttle," co-written with his father, Stephen King. 480 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Signed by Author. …

Typed (cyclostyled or similar?) Letter Signed as above, three pages, 12mo. very good condition, apart from small rusty hole where formerly stapled. At the bottom of page 1 "The Friends of Hansard is a non-profit-making association founded in 1943 to spread knowledge of the proceedings of Parliament" though the "Friends of Hansard" website implies a different origin ("Seeing the Prime Minister, Mr Churchill, and his Deputy, Mr Attlee, sitting on a sofa in the Smoking Room of the House of Commons in August 1944, at the height of the War, an independent MP, Stephen King-Hall, summoned up the courage to approach them to see if he could interest them in his 'Friends of Hansard' idea.") This circular letter makes ten points including defining the objectives of the organisation from its not having "any political point of view", the need to engage the public, being responsive to public requests for books, the need for "democratic machinery", proposals for an organising Committee and its functions, etc. Note: I have yet to find any reference to this Circular Letter. …