2024 Collecting Goals

[Ari_Racing]

These threads are like a personal trademark for me :)

Let's see:

* You Like It Darker US proof
* You Like It Darker UK proof
* You Like It Darker manuscript
* Pet Sematary US proof 1st state
* At least 1 of the 17 1st fiction appearances' magazines/newspapers I'm missing
* At least 2 of the 25 magazines I'm missing that include an original non-fiction piece.
* The two 1st fiction appearances' books I'm missing.
* At least 2 of the 20 promo items I'm after.
* At least 1 more book signed by King of the 42 I'm missing.
* At least 1 S/L KING book of the 8 I'm missing.
* At least 1 S/L non-King book that has his signature out of the 25 I'm missing
* At least 1 of the four annuary books I'm missing.
* At least 1 of the two Kingdom Hospital Scripts written by King I'm missing.
* At least 2 of the 25 books I'm missing that include an original non-fiction piece.
* At least 1 of the 147 newspapers I'm missing that include an original non-fiction piece.

Grail list:

* The Regulators - Lettered edition
* A copy of The Drum newspaper with a King piece in it.
* One of the three Comics Review fanzine with a part of I was a teenage grave robber.

[Honvie]

* Blockade Billy White Proof
* Signed BB Trade
* CotW SL with portfolio
* Letters from Hell SL

[namelessnpoor]

*King signed 3rd Gunslinger
*3rd State Salems Lot
*Six Stories

[mcbanick]

Love these threads

Shining First w/ 70s Inscription
Stand First w/ 70s inscription
Complete my DT S/L set

[mmalling]

Next Year!
- LSOE AE Remarque
- Waste Lands 1/1: Dutch Hill Demon Remarque
- Signed US (not Italian)1st Fairy Tale
- Something inscribed to Mike/Michael (preferably DT related)
- Signed Everything's Eventual 1st

[shaq]

Edited….

[herbertwest]

You got a Dorian lettered? wow !

[webstar1000]

My year is complete with PLASTERMAN.. the Wastelands cover artwork by my main man.. Ned Dameron!

[shaq]

You got a Dorian lettered? wow !

I have, that and Full Throttle are immense books.

Very happy they are both on my shelves. A dream!

[mmalling]

Next Year!
- LSOE AE Remarque
- Waste Lands 1/1: Dutch Hill Demon Remarque
- Signed US (not Italian)1st Fairy Tale
- Something inscribed to Mike/Michael (preferably DT related)
- Signed Everything's Eventual 1st

Plasterman remarque found!!

[Randall Flagg]

* King Signed Duma Key 1st
* Deluxe edition of The Long Walk
* Retirement from collecting expensive King books

[wizardsrainbow]

You Like It Darker signed
Getting my Sphere Gunslinger proof signed

[shaq]

Removed duplicatrs

[namelessnpoor]

*King signed 3rd Gunslinger
*3rd State Salems Lot
*Six Stories

Got a 3rd state Salems Jacket....just need a first edition book to go with it now. If anyone has jacket less first edition Salems they'd sell...shoot me a mesage!

[shaq]

2023 onwards and onwards and onwards

Grants Christine numbered - bought
Philtrum Press EOTD numbered - bought
Joe Hill Full Throttle Lettered. - bought

Non King
Black Sunday - Thomas Harris signed - bought
Ken Grimwood - signed replay - bought
Cormac McCarthy signed deluxe uk box set - Achieved
Lyra - Dorian Lettered - Achieved yay!

All done, some to receive still, but my collecting habit is now limited to….

New King signed limiteds (if within my reach)
Lyra Press releases…

Feet up and stare at the collection time is within reach. Happy days

[Ari_Racing]

Five months passed so and I've got only two items:

* You Like It Darker US proof
* You Like It Darker UK proof
* You Like It Darker manuscript
* Pet Sematary US proof 1st state
* At least 1 of the 17 1st fiction appearances' magazines/newspapers I'm missing
* At least 2 of the 25 magazines I'm missing that include an original non-fiction piece.
* The two 1st fiction appearances' books I'm missing.
* At least 2 of the 20 promo items I'm after.
* At least 1 more book signed by King of the 42 I'm missing.
* At least 1 S/L KING book of the 8 I'm missing.
* At least 1 S/L non-King book that has his signature out of the 25 I'm missing
* At least 1 of the four annuary books I'm missing.
* At least 1 of the two Kingdom Hospital Scripts written by King I'm missing.
* At least 2 of the 25 books I'm missing that include an original non-fiction piece.
* At least 1 of the 147 newspapers I'm missing that include an original non-fiction piece.

Grail list:

* The Regulators - Lettered edition
* A copy of The Drum newspaper with a King piece in it.
* One of the three Comics Review fanzine with a part of I was a teenage grave robber.

[Honvie]

Five months passed so and I've got only two items:

* You Like It Darker US proof
* You Like It Darker UK proof
* You Like It Darker manuscript
* Pet Sematary US proof 1st state
* At least 1 of the 17 1st fiction appearances' magazines/newspapers I'm missing
* At least 2 of the 25 magazines I'm missing that include an original non-fiction piece.
* The two 1st fiction appearances' books I'm missing.
* At least 2 of the 20 promo items I'm after.
* At least 1 more book signed by King of the 42 I'm missing.
* At least 1 S/L KING book of the 8 I'm missing.
* At least 1 S/L non-King book that has his signature out of the 25 I'm missing
* At least 1 of the four annuary books I'm missing.
* At least 1 of the two Kingdom Hospital Scripts written by King I'm missing.
* At least 2 of the 25 books I'm missing that include an original non-fiction piece.
* At least 1 of the 147 newspapers I'm missing that include an original non-fiction piece.

Grail list:

* The Regulators - Lettered edition
* A copy of The Drum newspaper with a King piece in it.
* One of the three Comics Review fanzine with a part of I was a teenage grave robber.

That's an intimidating list. All the best in your quest!

[mcbanick]

Love these threads

Shining First w/ 70s Inscription
Stand First w/ 70s inscription
Complete my DT S/L set

In the works and won't have it in-hand for a while. But can consider this one done!

[The Library Policeman]

Love these threads

Shining First w/ 70s Inscription
Stand First w/ 70s inscription
Complete my DT S/L set

In the works and won't have it in-hand for a while. But can consider this one done!

A fine achievement. Congratulations!

[OneFathom]

Love these threads

Shining First w/ 70s Inscription
Stand First w/ 70s inscription
Complete my DT S/L set

In the works and won't have it in-hand for a while. But can consider this one done!

BOOM! Good stuff, Mark. Huge!

[mmalling]

Next Year!
- LSOE AE Remarque
- Waste Lands 1/1: Dutch Hill Demon Remarque
- Signed US (not Italian)1st Fairy Tale
- Something inscribed to Mike/Michael (preferably DT related)
- Signed Everything's Eventual 1st

Plasterman remarque found!!

For Mike WWW inscribed YoP First Edition Gunslinger!!! Check & Check!

[mcbanick]

Next Year!
- LSOE AE Remarque
- Waste Lands 1/1: Dutch Hill Demon Remarque
- Signed US (not Italian)1st Fairy Tale
- Something inscribed to Mike/Michael (preferably DT related)
- Signed Everything's Eventual 1st

Plasterman remarque found!!

For Mike WWW inscribed YoP First Edition Gunslinger!!! Check & Check!

And it's a beauty, too. Congrats again!

[mmalling]

Thanks Mark - congrats to you as well on your s/l set. Did you find your missing parts or purchase a complete set?

[Honvie]

* Blockade Billy White Proof
* Signed BB Trade
* CotW SL with portfolio
* Letters from Hell SL

Adding EOTD to 2024 as I doubt I'll find another white BB proof...

[Herbie_Marsten]

Wanted, copies to read, does not have to be original. (Can Even be watermarked as "COPY")

Short Stories
Star Invaders, The ( 17 Pages )
Charlie (written 5/12/1959)
Land of 1,000,000 Years Ago
Thirty-one of the Classics
Dimension Warp, The (People, Places and Things)
I'm Falling (People, Places and Things)
Pit and the Pendulum, The [w EA Poe]
Aftermath, The (Written 5/16/1963)
Stud City
Sword in the Darkness (written 4/1/1970)
Float, The (orig. ver The Raft) -
Wimsey (written 7/1/1977)
Bird and the Album, The

Poems
She Has Gone to Sleep While
Woman with Child
Mostly Old Men

[Herbie_Marsten]

Continued....

Non-Fiction
Foreword to Dave Marsh's Glory Days (written 4/14/1987)
A Postscript to Overdrive, Essay, Castle Rock: The SK Newsletter (Feb 1987)
Authors@aol series, Interview,
Bernie Wrightson: An Appreciation, Essay (2 - page), Cycle of the Werewolf Portfolio (limited edition )
Between Rock and a Soft Place, Article, Playboy 1982
Digging the Boogens, Movie rev, Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine
The Doll Who Ate His Mother Essay & Rev, Whispers Vol 3,Num3-4
Entering the Rock Zone, or How I Happened to Marry a Rock Station from Outer Space, Essay, Castle Rock: The SK Newsletter (Oct 1987)
The Evil Dead’, Review, Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine
Foreword to Dave Marsh's Glory Days, Foreword - Brief Unused, Held by King, Handwritten manuscript dated 4/14/1987
Introduction to The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script, Introduction, The Shawshank Redemption: The shooting script (March 1996) (pb)
Just A Little Talent, Essay, Hard Listening
Most Overrated Rock Band, Essay, American Heritage Overated Underated, 2001
On J.K. Potter: The Art of the Morph, Intro, Interzone #77, from Horripilations, Paper Tiger, 1993
Prime Mover: Stephen and Tabitha King, Interview, Maine Seniors
Remembering John, Eulogy J Lennon, The Bangor Daily News. 1980
Special Make-up Effects and the Writer, Essay, Imagine Inc. Grande Illusions (A learn by example Guide to the Art and Technique or Special Make-up Effects from the films of Tom Savini)
Stephen King on Censorship (& SK Scary Idea -G.Beahm), Interview to NAL, Videotaped interview (1989), 1993 War of Words (pb, edited byGeorge Beahm)
Stephen King Q&A, Interview, Barnes & Noble Audio Q&A interview with Stephen regarding audio books and the Wavedancer benefit
The Art of Fiction No. 189, Interview, The Paris Review, Fall 2006, The Paris Review Interviews, Vol II
The Dreaded X, Discussion, Castle Rock: The SK Newsletter ( 1986/7), April 1991 Gauntlet: Exploring the limit of free expression, May 1991 Gauntlet 2 Anthology
The Genius of "The Tell-Tale Heart", Essay, In the Shadow of the Master
The Wait is Over…, Interview (2 part), The Waldenbook Report (1997) (Part 1 Nov: Dark Tower Returns, Part 2 Dec: SK Meets Fans' Demands: The DarkTowerContinues)
The Weapon, Essay, The New York Times Magazine
Theodore Sturgeon: 1918-1985, obit, The Washington Post Book World 1985 Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 1986

[mmalling]

Next Year!
- LSOE AE Remarque
- Waste Lands 1/1: Dutch Hill Demon Remarque
- Signed US (not Italian)1st Fairy Tale
- Something inscribed to Mike/Michael (preferably DT related)
- Signed Everything's Eventual 1st

Plasterman remarque found!!

For Mike WWW inscribed YoP First Edition Gunslinger!!! Check & Check!

Signed Fairy Tale US 1st found!!! - been a great few weeks!

[Johnny007]

Next Year!
- LSOE AE Remarque
- Waste Lands 1/1: Dutch Hill Demon Remarque
- Signed US (not Italian)1st Fairy Tale
- Something inscribed to Mike/Michael (preferably DT related)
- Signed Everything's Eventual 1st

Plasterman remarque found!!

For Mike WWW inscribed YoP First Edition Gunslinger!!! Check & Check!

Signed Fairy Tale US 1st found!!! - been a great few weeks!

Congratulations! That's not an easy find.

John

[mmalling]

Next Year!
- LSOE AE Remarque
- Waste Lands 1/1: Dutch Hill Demon Remarque
- Signed US (not Italian)1st Fairy Tale
- Something inscribed to Mike/Michael (preferably DT related)
- Signed Everything's Eventual 1st

Plasterman remarque found!!

For Mike WWW inscribed YoP First Edition Gunslinger!!! Check & Check!

Signed Fairy Tale US 1st found!!! - been a great few weeks!

Congratulations! That's not an easy find.

John

Agreed!!! Been looking since 2022 ;)