6/25/2023 0 Comments The bachman books first edition![]() ![]() Rare printings from specialty horror presses such as Cemetery Dance and Subterranean Publications. ![]() Several of the first King short stories to appear in print. versions of Rage, the 1977 novel King published under the early pseudonym Richard Bachman. An expanded coffin-boxed signed edition of The Stand. Leach found herself glancing over pages of first-edition/first-printing copies of classics like Carrie, Salem’s Lot, The Shining. It contained row after row of rare Stephen King titles, kitschy ephemera and memorabilia, a lifetime’s worth of devoted collecting. ![]() His spreadsheet didn’t just contain a couple of books. Leach and the staff at the 31-year-old bookstore on Clairmont Road are used to customers coming in daily looking to hand off used and antique literary wares for consignment or trade. “He had a list printed out and said, ‘I have a couple of books, and I’m curious if y’all would be interested.’ I took one look at the list and said, ‘Oh, my gosh.’” “I was here with my coworker and a guy just walked in the door,” Leach says. Longtime employee Megan Leach hadn’t even had her coffee yet. Atlanta Vintage Books had just opened for the day. ![]()
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