Salem's Lot by Stephen King [ILLUSTRATED EDITION] 2005 / FIRST PRINTING

Salem's Lot by Stephen King 

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [2005] DOUBLEDAY BOOKS 

1st edition thus.   Beautiful illustrated collector's edition w/ two bonus short stories and beautiful artwork throughout.  

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.   Dust jacket is in beautiful shape; crease to rear panel.  Otherwise excellent w/ some light wear.

Book itself is excellent; binding is tight.  Cloth cover is pristine.  Pages read as new.

Stephen King's second novel, the vampire bestseller 'Salem's Lot, tells the story of evil in small-town America. For the first time in a major trade edition, this terrifying novel is accompanied by previously unpublished material from King's archive, two short stories, and eerie photographs that bring King's fictional darkness and evil to vivid life.   Also contains: One For the Road, Jerusalem's Lot

'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets, and solid church steeples. That summer in 'Salem's Lot was a summer of home-coming and return; spring burned out and the land lying dry, crackling underfoot. Late that summer, Ben Mears returned to 'Salem's Lot hoping to cast out his own devils... and found instead a new unspeakable horror.

A stranger had also come to the Lot, a stranger with a secret as old as evil, a secret that would wreak irreparable harm on those he touched and in turn on those they loved.

All would be changed forever—Susan, whose love for Ben could not protect her; Father Callahan, the bad priest who put his eroded faith to one last test; and Mark, a young boy who sees his fantasy world become reality and ironically proves the best equipped to handle the relentless nightmare of 'Salem's Lot.