THE DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER
New York: Plume / New American Library, 1988. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Item #7699
First Printing. Octavo (23cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [10],11-224pp; illustrations throughout by Michael Whelan. Light wear to extremities, with some very subtle toning to text edges, else a clean, sharp-cornered copy; Near Fine.
"The Gunslinger begins the quest by Roland, the gunslinger, to track and confront the "man in black," who knows, perhaps, the secret of the "Dark Tower." As he travels across the barren landscape of King's alternate world, sometimes alone, sometimes with a boy named Jake, Roland recalls fragments of his own past. He finally confronts the man in black, who reads his future with a Tarot deck" (Barron, Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide 4-164). Among King's most widely-read works, successfully merging elements of the spaghetti western and epic fantasy. Basis for Nikolaj Arcel's 2017 film adaptation (The Dark Tower), starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Brooks A18.3.
Price: $125.00