Lisey's Story
By Stephen King
 
First UK edition, first impression: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006. Signed by the author to the title page.
 
Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, red endpapers and paste-downs. With the original dust jacket, unclipped and priced £17.99.
 
A fine copy, the binding square and firm with bright silver lettering; a little toning to edges with the contents otherwise clean and fresh.
 
The dust jacket near fine, original and unclipped, with just a touch of fading to the spine panel; an excellent example still bearing the original retailer's 'Signed by the author' sticker to the upper panel.
 
Winner of the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, Lisey's Story is a deeply personal work that Stephen King has frequently cited as his favourite among his own novels. Inspired by his 2003 hospitalisation for severe pneumonia and his wife's subsequent studio clean-up, the narrative offers a profound meditation on the secret language of long marriages, the nature of grief, and the sources of creative imagination. The subject of a 2021 Apple TV+ television miniseries adaptation, notable for featuring screenplays written entirely by King himself.