Just After Sunset: Stories [Signed First Edition]

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Scribner, Publishers, 2008. Stated First Scribner hardcover edition November 2008; full number-line beginning w/1. Signed by Stephen King at title page: "Stephen King". Very attractive. Signed at The Odyssey Bookshop of Hadley, Massachusetts on 11/06/2008 at a conversation and benefit with the master of horror. Includes folded color flyer, bookmark for event, and receipt of original purchase. Black boards, black textured spine wrap, metallic sunset-orange spine titles. Pages fine. Bind fine. Stunning dust wrapper, fine; unclipped 28.00, protected in new clear sleeve. Jacket design features orange holographic titles on black background wrapping around to black titles over orange. A beautifully signed, fine first edition. This is SK's classic short story collection set around the magic hour or twilight. A few scenarios: a book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well; an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle takes its rider on a captivating, and then terrifying, journey; a blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand; and, a psychiatric patient's irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside, or, keep the world from falling into oblivion. These are just a few of the yarns to be found. Title contents include: "Willa; The Gingerbread Girl; Harvey's Dream; Rest Stop; Stationary Bike; The Things They Left Behind; Graduation Afternoon; The Cat from Hell; The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates; Mute; Ayana; A Very Tight Place; and, Sunset Notes". Call it dusk or call it sunset, it's a time when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate into darkness and the living daylights can be scared right out of you. It is the perfect time for SK. "The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces." 367 pages. Insured post.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.