IT
By Stephen King
 
First UK edition, first impression: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1986.
 
Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the original pictorial dust jacket designed by Howard J. Shaw and illustrated by Gerald Grace, priced £12.95 net in UK.
 
A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with bright gilt. Usual tanning to edges of text-block, else near fine, the contents clean.
 
The dust jacket near fine, unclipped, with minimal traces of edge-wear, primarily to the spine ends; free from any nicks or tears; overall presenting extremely well.
 
One of Stephen King's most ambitious and enduring works, IT explores the trauma of childhood and the power of memory through the lens of a malevolent, shape-shifting entity in Derry, Maine. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1987 and was nominated for the Locus and World Fantasy Awards. Its impact on popular culture is profound, particularly through its personification of "Pennywise the Dancing Clown," which helped to cement the "evil clown" archetype in the modern psyche. The book has been successfully adapted twice: first as a celebrated 1990 television miniseries starring Tim Curry, and later as a two-part cinematic feature (2017 and 2019), the first of which became the highest-grossing horror film of all time.