FULL DARK, NO STARS (First UK edition - first impression)

First impression of the first UK edition. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with pale metallic-blue titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No marks or annotations. No creases or tears. Paper stock slightly tanned as usual. Pages clean. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £18.99. The dustwrapper is complete - extremities just slightly rubbed. No chips, creases or tears. Dustwrapper bright and clean. ***242mm x160mm. 340 pages. ***'In "Big Driver", a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters a stranger along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess draws on her skills as a crime writer to plot a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself. ***In the darkly amusing "Fair Extension", cancer-ridden Harry Streeter makes a deal with a man selling all sorts of extensions and in his case, a life extension. But for every extension there's a price. ***In the final story, "A Good Marriage", Stephen King poses the question: is it possible to fully know anyone even those we love the most? When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers an object containing her husband's dark and terrifying secrets. What would you do if the man who keeps his nails short and clean isn't the man you think he is? And now he's heading home. ***With a fascinating afterword in which Stephen King describes the inspiration behind each story, "Full Dark, No Stars" contains close-up portraits which bristle with intensity. Like "Different Season" and "Four Past Midnight" - which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me - "Full Dark, No Stars" proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the first UK edition, in the original dustwrapper, in very nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…