Stephen King. NIGHT SHIFT. Doubleday, 1978. 1st HC/DJ. Code S52. Very Scarce!!!

Description: Normal.dotm 0 0 1 1279 7292 Lincoln Public Schools 60 14 8955 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false King, Stephen. NIGHT SHIFT. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978. 1st edition. With "FIRST EDITION" printed on the copyright page and with code S52 in the gutter of page 336, both of which indicate that this is the correct 1st edition, 1st printing of this book. This is NOT a book club book. This is NOT an ex-library book. Buyer beware: there were a number of later printings of NIGHT SHIFT that were published in this exact hardcover format, in similar hardcover formats, and there were some book club editions that resemble the trade edition. There were only 12,000 1st edition, 1st printing copies of NIGHT SHIFT (Stephen King's very scarce 4th book; offered here) that were published with the correct dust jacket with the publisher's price of $8.95 on the front flap and with the correct gutter code of S52. Newer Stephen King books are published in 1st editions of over a million copies, which makes the 12,000 1st edition copies of NIGHT SHIFT very scarce. This is the real deal: the true 1st edition, 1st printing. SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE IMMEDIATELY TO SEE THE CONDITION OF THIS BOOK AND THIS DUST JACKET. Stephen King is one of the best and most famous fiction writers in the world. He may be the best-selling author of all time. He is the author of such great and famous books as CARRIE (his 1st book), ‘SALEM’S LOT (Stephen's King's 2nd book and 2nd novel), THE SHINING, THE STAND, CUJO, FIRESTARTER, CHRISTINE, THE DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER (and the rest of the “Dark Tower” series), DESPERATION, DIFFERENT SEASONS, THE BACHMAN BOOKS. THE TOMMYKNOCKERS, IT, SKELETON CREW, NIGHT SHIFT (offered here), INSOMNIA, PET SEMATARY, NEEDFUL THINGS, MISERY, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS, THE TALISMAN (with Peter Straub), EYES OF THE DRAGON, GERALD’S GAME, DOLORES CLAIBORNE, ROSE MADDER, CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF, FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES, THE GREEN MILE, and many, many more. Some of the awards and award nominations that Stephen King has been honored with: 1976: ‘SALEM’S LOT. World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novel. 1978: THE SHINING. Gandalf Award nominee for Best Book- Length Fantasy. 1978: ‘SALEM’S LOT. American Library Association Award winner for Best Books for Young Adults. 1978: THE SHINING. Locus Award nominee for Best Fantasy Novel. 1979: THE STAND. Locus Award nominee for Best Novel. 1979: “The Gunslinger.” Locus Award nominee for Best Novelette. 1979: THE STAND. Gandalf Award nominee for Best Book- Length Fantasy. 1979: THE STAND. Balrog Award nominee for Best Novel. 1979: THE STAND. World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novel. 1979: NIGHT SHIFT. World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Collection/Anthology. 1980: “The Way Station.” Nebula Award nominee for Best Novelette. 1980: NIGHT SHIFT. Balrog Award winner for Best Collection/ Anthology. 1980: Stephen is a Balrog Award nominee for Professional Achievement. 1980: THE DEAD ZONE. Balrog Award nominee for Best Novel. 1980: Stephen King is the University of Maine Alumni Career Award winner. 1980: Stephen King is the World Fantasy Convention Award winner. 1981: FIRESTARTER. Balrog Award nominee for Best Novel. 1981: FIRESTARTER. American Library Association Award winner for Best Books for Young Adults. 1981: Stephen King is honored by being named a British Fantasy Society Award winner for Outstanding Contributions to the genre. 1981: “The Mist.” Locus Award nominee for Best Novel. 1981: “The Way Station.” Locus Award nominee for Best Novelette. 1982: CUJO. Balrog Award nominee for Best Novel. 1982: DANSE MACABRE. Locus Award winner for Best Related Nonfiction Book. 1982: DANSE MACABRE. Hugo Award winner for Best Nonfiction. 1982: FIRESTARTER. New York Public Library Award winner for Best Books for the Teen Age. 1982: Stephen King is named the Us Magazine Best Fiction Writer of the Year. 1982: “Do the Dead Sing?” World Fantasy Award winner for Best Short Fiction. 1983: “Apt Pupil.” British Fantasy Society Award nominee for Best Short Fiction. 1983: “The Raft.” Locus Award nominee for Best Novelette. 1983: “The Breathing Method.” World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novella. 1986: Stephen King is the Spokane Public Library Golden Pen Award winner. 1986: SKELETON CREW. Locus Award winner for Best Collection. 1987: IT. British Fantasy Society Award winner for Best Novel. 1987: IT. Locus Award nominee for Best Fantasy Novel. 1987: MISERY. Bram Stoker Award co-winner for Best Novel. 1987: “The End of the Whole Mess.” World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Short Fiction. 1988: MISERY. World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novel. 1988: “The Night Flier.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Long Fiction. 1988: THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE. Locus Award nominee for Best Novel. 1990: “The Langoliers.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Long Fiction. 1990: FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Collection. 1991: NEEDFUL THINGS. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 1991: THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 1992: THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS. Locus Award nominee for Best Novel. 1992: Stephen King is honored by being named a World Horror Convention Grandmaster Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 1993: NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Collection. 1994: INSOMNIA. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 1995: “Lunch at the Gotham Café.” Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Long Fiction. 1995: “The Man in the Black Suit.” World Fantasy Award winner for Short Fiction. 1996: THE GREEN MILE. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Novel. 1996: “The Man in the Black Suit.” O. Henry Award winner for Best American Short Story. 1997: “Everything’s Eventual.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Long Fiction. 1997: DESPERATION. Horror Guild Award winner for Best Novel. 1997: DESPERATION. Locus Award winner for Best Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel. 1998: BAG OF BONES. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Novel. 1998: “Autopsy Room Four.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Short Fiction. 1999: “Low Men in Yellow Coats.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Collection. 1999: BAG OF BONES. British Fantasy Society Award winner for Best Novel. 1999: BAG OF BONES. Locus Award winner for Best Dark Fantasy/ Horror Novel. 1999: “Storm of the Century.” International Horror Guild Award winner for Best Television Episode. 2000: “Riding the Bullet.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Long Fiction. 2000: “Riding the Bullet.” International Horror Guild Award nominee for Best Long Story. 2000: ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Nonfiction. 2001: ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT. Locus Award winner for Best Nonfiction Book. 2001: BLACK HOUSE. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 2001: “Riding the Bullet.” Horror Guild Award winner for Best Long Story. 2001: ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT. Horror Guild Award winner for Best Nonfiction. 2002: FROM A BUICK 8. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 2002: EVERYTHING’S EVENTUAL. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Collection. 2002: Stephen King is honored by being named a Bram Stoker Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 2002: BLACK HOUSE. Horror Guild Award winner for Best Novel. 2003: THE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLA. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 2003: “Harvey’s Dream.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Short Fiction. 2003: FROM A BUICK 8. Horror Guild Award winner for Best Novel. 2003: EVERYTHING’S EVENTUAL. Horror Guild Award winner for Best Collection. 2003: Stephen King is honored by being named an International Horror Guild Living Legends Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 2003: Stephen King is honored by being named a National Book Foundation Medal winner for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. 2004: THE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLA. Locus Award nominee for Best Fantasy Novel. 2004: THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWER. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 2004: “Lisey and the Madman.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Long Fiction. 2004: “Kingdom Hospital.” International Horror Guild Award nominee for Best Television Episode. 2004: Stephen King is honored by being named a World Fantasy Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 2005: THE DARK TOWER VI: SONG OF SUSANNAH. Locus Award nominee for Best Fantasy Novel. 2005: “The Things They Left Behind.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Long Fiction. 2005: THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWER. British Fantasy Society Award winner for Best Novel. 2005: THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWER. Quill Award nominee for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Novel. 2006: LISEY’S STORY. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Novel. 2006: CELL. Quill Award nominee for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/ Horror Novel. 2007: Stephen King is honored by being named a Canadian Booksellers Association Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 2007: Stephen King is honored by being named a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 2009: DUMA KEY. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Novel. 2009: JUST AFTER SUNSET. Bram Stoker Award winner for Superior Achievement in a Collection. 2009: JUST AFTER SUNSET. Alex Award winner for Fiction. 2009: JUST AFTER SUNSET. British Fantasy Award nominee for Best Collection. 2009: DUMA KEY. Black Quill Award winner for Best Dark Genre Novel of the Year: Readers’ Choice.2010: UNDER THE DOME. Locus Award nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel. 2010: UNDER THE DOME. British Fantasy Award (August Derleth Award) nominee for Best Novel. 2010: “Morality.” Shirley Jackson Award winner for Best Novelette. 2011: FULL DARK, NO STARS. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Collection. 2011: “1922.” British Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novella. 2011: FULL DARK, NO STARS. British Fantasy Award winner for Best Collection. 2012: “The Little Green God of Agony.” Locus Award nominee for Best Novelette. 2012: 11/22/63. Locus Award runner-up for Best Science Fiction Novel. 2012: 11/22/63. World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novel. 2012: 11.22.63. British Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novel. 2012: “Herman Wouk Is Still Alive.” Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Short Fiction. 2014: JOYLAND. Locus Award nominee for Best Fantasy Novel. 2014: DOCTOR SLEEP. Locus Award nominee for Best Fantasy Novel. 2014: DOCTOR SLEEP. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Novel. 2014: DOCTOR SLEEP. Phantastik Preis Award nominee for Best Foreign Novel. 2015: REVIVAL. Locus Award nominee for Best Fantasy Novel. 2016: “Obits.” Hugo Award nominee for Best Novelette. 2016: THE BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS. Shirley Jackson Award winner for Best Collection. 2018: SLEEPING BEAUTIES. (co-written with Owen King). Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 2019: THE OUTSIDER. Locus Award runner-up for Best Horror Novel. Clearly Stephen King is not only one of the greatest of all dark fantasy and horror writers in the world, he is also one of the greatest of all time. He is the logical successor to Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. And, he is also one of the greatest of all modern fiction writers, regardless of genre From the dust jacket: “ . . . NIGHT SHIFT . . . STEPHEN KING . . . This new book of stories from the author of CARRIE, THE SHINING, and ‘SALEM’S LOT is a chilling collection of strange imaginings, ghoulish twists, and diabolical terror . . . Stephen King, a modern master of the macabre, has brought together nineteen of his most unsettling short pieces — bizarre tales of dark doings and unthinkable acts from the twilight regions where horror and madness take on eerie, unearthly forms . . . where noises in the walls and shadows by the bed are always signs of something dreadful on the prowl . . . The settings are familiar and unsuspected — a high school, a factory, a truck stop, a laundry, a field of Nebraska corn. But in Stephen King’s world any place can serve as devil’s ground . . . if the time of night is propitious and the forces of darkness are strong, and the victims are caught just slightly off their guard . . . “ From the rear flap of the dust jacket: “ . . . STEPHEN KING’S first novel, CARRIE, has sold close to two million copies in seven languages, and served as the basis for Brian DePalma’s enormously successful film of the same name. His next two novels, ‘SALEM’S LOT and THE SHINING — both bestsellers — have also been sold to the movies . . . ” From the rear panel of the dust jacket: “In the ominous, frightening world of Stephen King there are things unimagined, almost unspeakable, working the NIGHT SHIFT: o Strange presences in Jerusalem’s Lot, a town abandoned for generations — and with good reason. No one who wanders there now, after the sun has set, ever comes back alive . . . o And the hideous growths on the hands of a former astronaut — tiny round and yellow eyes popping through the skin, watching him, not like what they see . . . o And the mysterious little girl lost in a fierce Maine blizzard, calling out to her rescuers in a pitiful voice. But she walks on top of the deep, drifting snow — and she leaves no tracks o And the grim-faced children in a Midwest town where no one seems to live past the age of nineteen . . . o And the vermin in the second sub-cellar of the old mill — abandoned to darkness for a hundred years and now assuming shapes and sizes nature never intended them to take . . . o And the giant folding and steam pressing machine in the Blue Ribbon Laundry — an impressive and reliable piece of equipment, until it got its first taste of human blood . . . “ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Clute, Nicholls THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION (1993): “ . . . Stephen King is probably the most successful bestseller novelist in history . . . King’s pungent prose, his sharp ear for dialogue, his disarmingly laid-back, frank style, along with his passionately fierce denunciations of human stupidity and cruelty (especially to children), put him among the more distinguished of ‘popular’ writers . . . “ Jones, Newman HORROR: THE 100 BEST BOOKS (1988): “ . . . Stephen King is arguably the most popular novelist in the history of American fiction and is indisputably the most successful horror writer of all time, with hundreds of millions of copies of his books in print . . . “ Barron HORROR LITERATURE (1990): “ . . . A discussion of Stephen King must be a dominant consideration in any analysis of contemporary dark fantasy . . . The essence of successful storytelling is solid plotting and the structural principles of King’s plots are remarkably effective. His characters are believable, sympathetic, and thoroughly contemporary; his settings are realistic, his dialogue colloquial, his writing clear and vivid . . . In order for a horror novel to achieve best-seller status, it must touch subjects, themes, and attitudes of more general public concern than is usual in hardcore genre products, while also exploiting the characteristic appeal of the genre. Stephen King has done this more efficiently and consistently than any other horror writer, past or present . . . “ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I grade books and dust jackets: fine, near fine, very good, good, fair, and poor. I describe all faults. If you sell books on EBAY (or anywhere else), it is de rigueur not to list 1st printings of book club books as 1st editions (unless they ARE the 1st edition, which occurs only occasionally); also, a 1st edition, 7th printing, is not a 1st edition. Ex-library books must be noted as such since generally they are of little value to the collector of 1st editions. Condition is also very important to those collectors. Books and dust jackets must be described in detail. In other words, it is incumbent upon the SELLER to know what is and is not a 1st edition. Mistakes can be made (and corrected), of course, but if you DON'T KNOW, don't try to sell a book as a 1st edition. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONDITION: A NEAR FINE (or slightly better) book in a VERY GOOD to VERY GOOD+ dust jacket. The book is tight and square in its black quarter-cloth and red boards binding with bright gilt lettering on the spine of the book. The book has, essentially, no flaws. The corners are not bumped, the edges of the boards are not worn, and the book has no spine lean; all unusual thus. The dust jacket is not price-clipped and shows the correct 1st state price of $8.95 on the upper front flap. The dust jacket has some color touch-up on the reverse side, mainly at the head and heel of the spine panel. There is also a bit of color touch-up on the outside of the dust jacket, mainly at the upper and lower edges of the spine panel; largely unobtrusive. The color touch-up was accomplished by a professional paper conservationist using archival (non-acidic) materials. There is a small closed tear at the lower edge of the rear panel of the dust jacket. The famous dust jacket design is by Fred Marcellino. Overall, this is a nice copy of a 1st edition of NIGHT SHIFT in the correct 1st state dust jacket, especially when one considers the scarcity of 1st editions of NIGHT SHIFT. A MUST FOR THE COLLECTOR OF IMPORTANT MODERN HORROR FICTION 1st EDITIONS AND/OR THE COLLECTOR OF AWARD-WINNING 1st EDITIONS AND/OR THE COLLECTOR OF STEPHEN KING 1st EDITIONS! ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Additional photos are available upon request. 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