Dark Tower - Gunslinger SL #399
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:19 pm
Good evening!
I am an avid collector of books in general but have a fairly respectable signed and signed limited King collection. I actually started collecting book in the early 1980's while browsing a book store inside the Big D Bazaar in Dallas. The seller was a fine man and I bought art from him but he opened his glass case on one visit and held the Dark Tower The Gunslinger Signed Limited #399 and told me it would be a great investment. He said there was a first printing and the book didn't do well and they were going release a new version. When the new version came out, that book would increase in value.
I now own a few hundred signed and signed limited from King, Cussler, Clancy, Koontz, Sandford, etc, but my favorite book is still that first one. Obviously, I hardly ever touch it. It just sits on the shelf and I look at it sitting there and smile a little. However, this afternoon, I took it out because I couldn't remember the number. As I was inside carefully so i don't crack the spine, I look at inside front page of the jacket and IT'S CLIPPED!!!
Why in the world would anybody price clip that book? I've been a bit sad all day and I am just bewildered as to why that book would have been clipped back in the early 80's.
So, I googled King forums, registered and here I am to ask anyone who might have an answer.
I am an avid collector of books in general but have a fairly respectable signed and signed limited King collection. I actually started collecting book in the early 1980's while browsing a book store inside the Big D Bazaar in Dallas. The seller was a fine man and I bought art from him but he opened his glass case on one visit and held the Dark Tower The Gunslinger Signed Limited #399 and told me it would be a great investment. He said there was a first printing and the book didn't do well and they were going release a new version. When the new version came out, that book would increase in value.
I now own a few hundred signed and signed limited from King, Cussler, Clancy, Koontz, Sandford, etc, but my favorite book is still that first one. Obviously, I hardly ever touch it. It just sits on the shelf and I look at it sitting there and smile a little. However, this afternoon, I took it out because I couldn't remember the number. As I was inside carefully so i don't crack the spine, I look at inside front page of the jacket and IT'S CLIPPED!!!
Why in the world would anybody price clip that book? I've been a bit sad all day and I am just bewildered as to why that book would have been clipped back in the early 80's.
So, I googled King forums, registered and here I am to ask anyone who might have an answer.