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Description: 1st Edition. No Binding. King, Stephen. THE GREEN MILE Custom Clamshell Case Only. New York: Penguin Books 1996 to house the 6 part soft cover series. Excellent Custom Clamshell Case [Not A Book] For The First Edition. Elegant Black Nuba & green cloth, Custom Gilt-Stamped Titles to spine. Embossed multi-layered, multi-mage [sculpted] design on the side inspired from the iconic cover illustration of the jail. Finished in rich Black velour on the interior. A superb & unique protective clamshell case for the first edition. Other Stephen King Clamshells available. A Handsome Collector's Custom Case for an important Collection. "Books definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age or if the edition is covered in Mylar. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests. Generally over 100 in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included Size can be adapted to soft or hardcover first editions.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
King, Stephen. The Green Mile.. Penguin, London, 1996.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of each of the six books published in self-contained monthly installments of this classic work, which tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. Octavo, 6 volumes, original illustrated wrappers. Each volume is signed by Stephen King on the title page. These volumes were signed in Manchester, Vermont. In fine condition. We have never seen another signed set. This novel taps into what Stephen King does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The charming narrator is an old man looking back on the events, decades later. Maybe it's a little too cute, maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. As Time magazine put it, "Like the best popular art, The Green Mile has the courage of its cornier convictions . the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel work as well as it finally does." And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome can be easily skipped by the squeamish. The Green Mile was nominated for a 1997 Bram Stoker Award and was made into the well-received motion picture directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.