The Eyes of the Dragon

By Stephen King

Limited edition, number 449 of 1,000 copies for sale, numbered in black and signed by the author: Bangor, Maine: Philtrum Press, 1984.

Additionally inscribed by the author on the title page: “For Sheryl – all best, Stephen King 4/1/85”. Inscribed copies are uncommon.

Original quarter black cloth over red and white decorated paper boards, the spine lettered in gilt; grey endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Linkhauser, the title page printed in red and black. In the original slipcase of black cloth with matching decorated paper sides.

A near fine copy, with some fading to the spine.

The slipcase with some fading to the top corner and fore-edge and a few, small, isolated and minor instances of rubbing to the bottom and the back.

King wrote the novel for his daughter Naomi, who by the age of thirteen had read none of the thirteen novels he had then written. It first appeared from Philtrum Press, King’s own imprint in Bangor, Maine, printed and bound by the Stinehour Press of Lunenburg, Vermont, to the design of Michael Alpert, in an edition of 1,250 copies printed in the autumn of 1984. One thousand copies were for sale and numbered in black; the remaining 250, numbered in red, were reserved for private distribution. Viking published the first trade edition in 1987, slightly revised and with illustrations by David Palladini. The novel’s villain, the magician Flagg, is the antagonist of The Stand and an adversary of Roland Deschain in the Dark Tower sequence.