Wolves of the Calla (Dark Tower V) (First Edition)

Stephen King (author); Bernie Wrightson (illustrator)

ISBN 10: 1880418568 / ISBN 13: 9781880418567

Published by Donald M. Grant/Scribner (Hampton Falls/New York), 2003

About this Item

Donald M. Grant/Scribner, Hampton Falls/New York, 2003. First edition. First printing of the first trade edition (with full number line including the 1). A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($35.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Hardcover. Quarter black cloth over black paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Octavo, 714 pages. Illustrated by Bernie Wrightson with full-page color plates and black-and-white chapter heads. The fifth volume in King's Dark Tower series, set in a gunslinger's mythic and apocalyptic landscape. The Dark Tower series spans eight books written between 1982 and 2012, blending fantasy, horror, and western genres in a sprawling multiverse centered on Roland Deschain s quest for the Tower; the series was loosely adapted into a 2017 feature film starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey and more faithfully reimagined in a shelved Amazon pilot directed by Stephen Hopkins.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wolves of the Calla (Dark Tower V) (First Edition)
• Publisher: Donald M. Grant/Scribner (Hampton Falls/New York)
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1880418568
• ISBN 13: 9781880418567
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Wrightson, Bernie
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

A long-anticipated fifth installment of the series continues the adventures of gunslinger Roland, who with his companions endeavors to reach and hopefully save the Dark Tower, a quest that is challenged by the evil wolves of Thunderclap, who are abducting the children of the residents of a town in the tower's shadow. 500,000 first printing.

About the Author

Stephen King, since writing the opening sentence of The Gunslinger, has written more than forty novels and two hundred short stories. He has won the World Fantasy Award, several Bram Stoker Awards, the O. Henry Award for his story "The Man in the Black Suit," and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.