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Permissions to Come. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Pages 33-64 Yellowed by Comparison to All Others (Aging of Publishers' Choice of Paper). DUST JACKET: Colouring Distorted in Lettering of Author's First Name (Publication Flaw); Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Late last night and the night before, Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, Knocking at the door. I want to go out, don't know if I can, 'cause I'm so afraid Of the Tommyknocker man. It begins with nothing more frightening than a nursery rhyme; yet in Stephen King's hands it becomes an unforgettable parable of dread, a threat from an unimaginable darkness that drags the practical inhabitants of a New England village into a hell worse than their own most horrible nightmares...and yours. It begins with a writer named Roberta Anderson, looking for firewood in the forest that stretches behind her house. Bobbi stumbles over three inches of metal, which unusually heavy spring runoff has left sticking out of the soil A logger's beer can, she thinks at first, but "the metal was as solid as mother-rock." It begins with Bobbi's discovery of the ship in the earth, a ship buried for millions of years, but still vibrating faintly, still humming with some sort of life...faint...weak...but still better left alone. Bobbi then begins to dig-tentatively at first, then compulsively-and is joined by her old friend (and onetime lover), Jim Gardener. Aided by a weirdly advanced technology, their excavation proceeds apace. And as they uncover more and more of an artefact both familiar and so unbelievable it is almost beyond comprehension, the inhabitants of Haven start to change. There is the new hot-water heater in Bobbi's basement-a hot-water heater that apparently runs on flashlight batteries. The vengeful housewife who learns of her husband's affair...from a picture of Jesus on top of her TV, a picture that begins to talk. Not to mention the ten-year-old magician who makes his little brother disappear...for real. The townspeople of Haven are "becoming"-being welded into one organic, homicidal, and fearsomely brilliant entity in fatal thrall to the Tommyknockers. In this riveting, nightmarish story, Stephen King has given us his tautest, most terrifying novel to date. And the next time someone raps at your door, you may want to keep the chain on. It just might be the Tommyknocker Man.

Size: 6x2x9; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover.

First Edition. Second issue, without "Permissions to Come" below number line on copyright page. A spaceship is found in the forest where it has been buried for millions of years but it is still vibrating faintly. Gift inscription on front endpaper, else fine in fine dustjacket with usual tarnishing to King's name on front panel.

A tight and clean first issue copy that feels unread in a bright and crisp DJ with a bit of wrinkling at the top of the spine.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons , 1987. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing with full number line. 558 pages. Light wear and some smudges to binding. Contents clean and tight.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons [0-399-13314-3] 1987, 1st edition, 1st impression. (hardcover) 558pp. Fine in very good dust jacket. Tall 8vo. Quarter faux-cloth black paper over green paper, lettering in gold to spine. King's signature blindstamped at foot of top board. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, price clipped. More common gold lettered variant of dust jacket. True 1st / 1st with all points: 8711 at foot of front flap of jacket, ISBN at rear of jacket, full number line with "Permissions to Come" beneath. Bright, tight, and clean..

Size: 20x20x20; True 1st edition, 1st printing. Hardcover and dust jacket. Minor wear to dj. Lettering of "Stephen" fragmentary. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 558 pages. Author name in gold. Trim size is 6.25 x 9.5 x 1.6". DJ price $19.95 and code '8711'. Quarter bound in black cloth with green boards. Paste-downs and front and rear end papers in green. Code '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10' printed on copyright page.

First Edition. 1997. Fine. Hardcover and dust jacket. D.j. has some minor rubbing and shelf wear, no tears,nicks or worn corners. Hardcover has minor foxing on top edge pages. Tight binding, sharp and clean pages. No markings. Fine condition. 558 pages.