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hamph7
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Good afternoon! My name is Hampton and I'm a big fan of Stephen King's books and movies. I am beginning to get into the hobby of collecting and of course my favorite book is one of the hardest to collect: 'Salem's Lot. Looking forward to being part of this community and learning more about collecting from other users! Thanks everyone!

& while I'm here: If the dust flap of 'Salem's Lot has the US Price $19.95, what does that say about the book? Thank you!
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Welcome to the site.

To answer your question, most (almost all) collectors look only for first editions. The printed price you mentioned is a much later printing. To learn more about first editions, look at the top of this page and click on the red tab, 1st Editions.

A lot of information available there to help a new collector (and even us older ones) to identify first editions.

Hope this helps.

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Hi Hampton, welcome to the forums!
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