THE SHINING by King, Stephen - 1977

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1977. First Edition. King's third published novel. "As caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the Rocky Mountains, Jack Torrance is snowbound with his wife, Wendy, and son, Danny, for three months. Energized by Danny's psychic powers - called his shine by King - the malevolent ghosts from the Overlook's violent past manifest themselves to claim the Torrance family as their latest victims" (Barron, Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide 4-173). Basis for Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film of the same name, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. Brooks A4.1. First Printing, with "First Edition" on copyright page and R49 code at gutter of p.447. Octavo (21.5cm); tan paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],447,[1]pp. Some wear to spine ends, modest rubbing to backstrip, faint foxing to endpapers, with trace of an old sticker removal at upper front pastedown, and a tiny stain to lower edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $8.95), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with some faint foxing on verso, and a small spot of soil at upper rear pastedown; Very Good+.