Stephen King (as Richard Bachman). RAGE. Signet/NAL, 1977. 1st ed. (PBO). Scarce

Description: Normal.dotm 0 0 1 1279 7292 Lincoln Public Schools 60 14 8955 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false King, Stephen. RAGE. New York, NY: NAL/Signet, 1977. 1st edition. With “FIRST PRINTING, SEPTEMBER, 1977” and number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 printed on the copyright page, which indicates that this is the correct 1st edition, 1st printing for Signet books of that period. This is the correct paperback original (PBO) 1st edition, 1st printing of RAGE. This is NOT a book club book. This is NOT an ex-library book. Buyer beware: there were multiple later printings of RAGE that were published in this exact paperback format and also in similar, but slightly different paperback formats. This is the real deal: the true 1st edition, 1st printing. SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE IMMEDIATELY TO SEE THE CONDITION OF THIS BOOK. Stephen King is one of the best and most famous fiction writers in the world. He may be the best-selling author of all time. He is the author of such great and famous books as CARRIE (his 1st book), ‘SALEM’S LOT, THE SHINING, THE STAND, CUJO, FIRESTARTER, CHRISTINE, THE DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER (and the rest of the “Dark Tower” series), DESPERATION, DIFFERENT SEASONS, THE BACHMAN BOOKS. THE TOMMYKNOCKERS, IT, SKELETON CREW, NIGHT SHIFT, THE RUNNING MAN, THE LONG WALK, ROADWORK, RAGE (offered here), INSOMNIA, PET SEMATARY, NEEDFUL THINGS, MISERY, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS, THE TALISMAN (with Peter Straub), EYES OF THE DRAGON, GERALD’S GAME, DOLORES CLAIBORNE, ROSE MADDER, CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF, FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES, THE GREEN MILE, DANSE MACABRE, and many, many more. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________ Clute, Nicholls THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION (1993): “ . . . Stephen King is probably the most successful bestseller novelist in history . . . King’s pungent prose, his sharp ear for dialogue, his disarmingly laid-back, frank style, along with his passionately fierce denunciations of human stupidity and cruelty (especially to children), put him among the more distinguished of ‘popular’ writers . . . “ Jones, Newman HORROR: THE 100 BEST BOOKS (1988): “ . . . Stephen King is arguably the most popular novelist in the history of American fiction and is indisputably the most successful horror writer of all time, with hundreds of millions of copies of his books in print . . . “ Barron HORROR LITERATURE (1990): “ . . . A discussion of Stephen King must be a dominant consideration in any analysis of contemporary dark fantasy . . . The essence of successful storytelling is solid plotting and the structural principles of King’s plots are remarkably effective. His characters are believable, sympathetic, and thoroughly contemporary; his settings are realistic, his dialogue colloquial, his writing clear and vivid . . . In order for a horror novel to achieve best-seller status, it must touch subjects, themes, and attitudes of more general public concern than is usual in hardcore genre products, while also exploiting the characteristic appeal of the genre. Stephen King has done this more efficiently and consistently than any other horror writer, past or present . . . “ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Some of the awards and award nominations that Stephen King has been honored with: 1976: ‘SALEM’S LOT. World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novel.1977: RAGE. RAGE was first published in 1977. It was the first of the four “Richard Bachman” paperback originals that King published under the Bachman pseudonym. It was followed by THE LONG WALK (1979), ROADWORK (1981), and THE RUNNING MAN (1982). 1978: THE SHINING. Gandalf Award nominee for Best Book- Length Fantasy. 1978: ‘SALEM’S LOT. American Library Association Award winner for Best Books for Young Adults. 1978: THE SHINING. Locus Award nominee for Best Fantasy Novel. 1979: THE STAND. Locus Award nominee for Best Novel. 1979: “The Gunslinger.” Locus Award nominee for Best Novelette. 1979: THE STAND. Gandalf Award nominee for Best Book- Length Fantasy. 1979: THE STAND. Balrog Award nominee for Best Novel. 1979: THE STAND. World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novel. 1979: NIGHT SHIFT. World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Collection/Anthology. 1980: “The Way Station.” Nebula Award nominee for Best Novelette. 1980: NIGHT SHIFT. Balrog Award winner for Best Collection/ Anthology. 1980: Stephen is a Balrog Award nominee for Professional Achievement. 1980: THE DEAD ZONE. Balrog Award nominee for Best Novel. 1980: Stephen King is the University of Maine Alumni Career Award winner. 1980: Stephen King is the World Fantasy Convention Award winner. 1981: FIRESTARTER. Balrog Award nominee for Best Novel. 1981: FIRESTARTER. American Library Association Award winner for Best Books for Young Adults. 1981: Stephen King is honored by being named a British Fantasy Society Award winner for Outstanding Contributions to the Genre. 1981: “The Mist.” Locus Award nominee for Best Novel. 1981: “The Way Station.” Locus Award nominee for Best Novelette. 1982: CUJO. Balrog Award nominee for Best Novel. 1982: DANSE MACABRE. Locus Award winner for Best Related Nonfiction Book. 1982: DANSE MACABRE. Hugo Award winner for Best Nonfiction. 1982: FIRESTARTER. New York Public Library Award winner for Best Books for the Teen Age. 1982: Stephen King is Us Magazine Best Fiction Writer of the Year. 1982: “Do the Dead Sing?” World Fantasy Award winner for Best Short Fiction. 1983: “Apt Pupil.” British Fantasy Society Award nominee for Best Short Fiction. 1983: “The Raft.” Locus Award nominee for Best Novelette. 1983: “The Breathing Method.” World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novella. 1986: Stephen King is the Spokane Public Library Golden Pen Award winner. 1986: SKELETON CREW. Locus Award winner for Best Collection. 1987: IT. British Fantasy Society Award winner for Best Novel. 1987: IT. Locus Award nominee for Best Fantasy Novel. 1987: MISERY. Bram Stoker Award co-winner for Best Novel. 1987: “The End of the Whole Mess.” World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Short Fiction. 1988: MISERY. World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novel. 1988: “The Night Flier.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Long Fiction. 1988: THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE. Locus Award nominee for Best Novel. 1990: “The Langoliers.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Long Fiction. 1990: FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Collection. 1991: NEEDFUL THINGS. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 1991: THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 1992: THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS. Locus Award nominee for Best Novel. 1992: Stephen King is honored by being named a World Horror Convention Grandmaster Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 1993: NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Collection. 1994: INSOMNIA. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 1995: “Lunch at the Gotham Café.” Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Long Fiction. 1995: “The Man in the Black Suit.” World Fantasy Award winner for Short Fiction. 1996: THE GREEN MILE. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Novel. 1996: “The Man in the Black Suit.” O. Henry Award winner for Best American Short Story. 1997: “Everything’s Eventual.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Long Fiction. 1997: DESPERATION. Horror Guild Award winner for Best Novel. 1997: DESPERATION. Locus Award winner for Best Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel. 1998: BAG OF BONES. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Novel. 1998: “Autopsy Room Four.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Short Fiction. 1999: “Low Men in Yellow Coats.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Collection. 1999: BAG OF BONES. British Fantasy Society Award winner for Best Novel. 1999: BAG OF BONES. Locus Award winner for Best Dark Fantasy/ Horror Novel. 1999: “Storm of the Century.” International Horror Guild Award winner for Best Television Episode. 2000: “Riding the Bullet.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Long Fiction. 2000: “Riding the Bullet.” International Horror Guild Award nominee for Best Long Story. 2000: ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Nonfiction. 2001: ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT. Locus Award winner for Best Nonfiction Book. 2001: BLACK HOUSE. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 2001: “Riding the Bullet.” Horror Guild Award winner for Best Long Story. 2001: ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT. Horror Guild Award winner for Best Nonfiction. 2002: FROM A BUICK 8. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 2002: EVERYTHING’S EVENTUAL. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Collection. 2002: Stephen King is honored by being named a Bram Stoker Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 2002: BLACK HOUSE. Horror Guild Award winner for Best Novel. 2003: THE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLA. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 2003: “Harvey’s Dream.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Short Fiction. 2003: FROM A BUICK 8. Horror Guild Award winner for Best Novel. 2003: EVERYTHING’S EVENTUAL. Horror Guild Award winner for Best Collection. 2003: Stephen King is honored by being named an International Horror Guild Living Legends Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 2003: Stephen King is honored by being named a National Book Foundation Medal winner for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. 2004: THE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLA. Locus Award nominee for Best Fantasy Novel. 2004: THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWER. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 2004: “Lisey and the Madman.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Long Fiction. 2004: “Kingdom Hospital.” International Horror Guild Award nominee for Best Television Episode. 2004: Stephen King is honored by being named a World Fantasy Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 2005: THE DARK TOWER VI: SONG OF SUSANNAH. Locus Award nominee for Best Fantasy Novel. 2005: “The Things They Left Behind.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Long Fiction. 2005: THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWER. British Fantasy Society Award winner for Best Novel. 2005: THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWER. Quill Award nominee for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Novel. 2006: LISEY’S STORY. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Novel. 2006: CELL. Quill Award nominee for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/ Horror Novel. 2007: Stephen King is honored by being named a Canadian Booksellers Association Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 2007: Stephen King is honored by being named a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 2009: DUMA KEY. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Novel. 2009: JUST AFTER SUNSET. Bram Stoker Award winner for Superior Achievement in a Collection. 2009: JUST AFTER SUNSET. Alex Award winner for Fiction. 2009: JUST AFTER SUNSET. British Fantasy Award nominee for Best Collection. 2009: DUMA KEY. Black Quill Award winner for Best Dark Genre Novel of the Year: Readers’ Choice.2010: UNDER THE DOME. Locus Award nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel. 2010: UNDER THE DOME. British Fantasy Award (August Derleth Award) nominee for Best Novel. 2010: “Morality.” Shirley Jackson Award winner for Best Novelette. 2011: FULL DARK, NO STARS. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Collection. 2011: “1922.” British Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novella. 2011: FULL DARK, NO STARS. British Fantasy Award winner for Best Collection. 2012: “The Little Green God of Agony.” Locus Award nominee for Best Novelette. 2012: 11/22/63. Locus Award runner-up for Best Science Fiction Novel. 2012: 11/22/63. World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novel. 2012: 11.22.63. British Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novel. 2012: “Herman Wouk Is Still Alive.” Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Short Fiction. 2014: JOYLAND. Locus Award nominee for Best Fantasy Novel. 2014: DOCTOR SLEEP. Locus Award nominee for Best Fantasy Novel. 2014: DOCTOR SLEEP. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Novel. 2014: DOCTOR SLEEP. Phantastik Preis Award nominee for Best Foreign Novel. 2015: REVIVAL. Locus Award nominee for Best Fantasy Novel. 2016: “Obits.” Hugo Award nominee for Best Novelette. 2016: THE BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS. Shirley Jackson Award winner for Best Collection. 2018: SLEEPING BEAUTIES. (co-written with Owen King). Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel. 2019: THE OUTSIDER. Locus Award runner-up for Best Horror Novel. Clearly Stephen King is not only one of the greatest of all dark fantasy and horror writers in the world, he is also one of the greatest of all time. He is the logical successor to Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. And, he is also one of the greatest of all modern fiction writers, regardless of genre. From the front cover of the book: " . . . HIS TWISTED MIND TURNED A QUIET CLASSROOM INTO A DANGEROUS WORLD OF TERROR . . . " From the first page of the book: “ . . . PLAYING AT VIOLENCE . . . I shot her; she fell; and there was an indescribable moment of silence, an infinite duration of time, and we all stepped back, watching the ball go around and around, ticking, bouncing, lighting for an instant, going on, head and tails, read and black, odd and even . . . Somebody broke the silence with a high gobbling scream. Somebody cleared his throat. Somebody in the back of the room said, ‘Hum!’ Somebody slithered quietly out of his seat and slumped to the floor in a dead faint . . . They looked up at me from the trough of shock . . . ‘This,’ I said, ‘is known as getting it on.’ . . . It was going to be a long time until anyone in Mrs. Underwood’s class escaped from the strange spell cast by Charlie . . . “ From the rear cover of the book: “ . . . THE SLY VOICES IN HIS MIND WHISPERED THEIR TERRIBLE WARNINGS, TELLING CHARLIE EXACTLY WHAT HE HAD TO DO. . . And one by one the students filed into the room, laughing, talking, never suspecting that today’s class would be like no other . . . For today Charlie would lead them in his savagely dangerous game of Show and Tell — and all their secrets would explode into a nightmare of violence and terror . . . RAGE . . . A powerfully charged novel that explores the darker ranges of the mind, and the horror of sadistic manipulation . . . “ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A psychological thriller written by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman involving a school shooting. After being reprinted in a collected omnibus hardcover edition (THE BACHMAN BOOKS) and being associated with actual high school shooting incidents in the 1980s and 1990s, King has chosen to let this book fall out of print. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Clute, Nicholls THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION (1993): “ . . . Stephen King is probably the most successful bestseller novelist in history . . . King’s pungent prose, his sharp ear for dialogue, his disarmingly laid-back, frank style, along with his passionately fierce denunciations of human stupidity and cruelty (especially to children), put him among the more distinguished of ‘popular’ writers . . . “ Jones, Newman HORROR: THE 100 BEST BOOKS (1988): “ . . . Stephen King is arguably the most popular novelist in the history of American fiction and is indisputably the most successful horror writer of all time, with hundreds of millions of copies of his books in print . . . “ Barron HORROR LITERATURE (1990): “ . . . A discussion of Stephen King must be a dominant consideration in any analysis of contemporary dark fantasy . . . The essence of successful storytelling is solid plotting and the structural principles of King’s plots are remarkably effective. His characters are believable, sympathetic, and thoroughly contemporary; his settings are realistic, his dialogue colloquial, his writing clear and vivid . . . In order for a horror novel to achieve best-seller status, it must touch subjects, themes, and attitudes of more general public concern than is usual in hardcore genre products, while also exploiting the characteristic appeal of the genre. Stephen King has done this more efficiently and consistently than any other horror writer, past or present . . . “_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I grade books and dust jackets: fine, near fine, very good, good, fair, and poor. I describe all faults. If you sell books on EBAY (or anywhere else), it is de rigueur not to list 1st printings of book club books as 1st editions (unless they ARE the 1st edition, which occurs only occasionally); also, a 1st edition, 7th printing, is not a 1st edition. Ex-library books must be noted as such since generally they are of little value to the collector of 1st editions. Condition is also very important to those collectors. 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It is clearly not a FINE copy or even a NEAR FINE copy; it might be said that this is a mediocre copy of this book. However, true 1st editions of RAGE are extremely scarce and collectible. A MUST FOR THE COLLECTOR OF IMPORTANT MODERN HORROR FICTION 1st EDITIONS AND/OR THE COLLECTOR OF “RICHARD BACHMAN” 1st EDITIONS AND/OR THE COLLECTOR OF STEPHEN KING 1st EDITIONS! ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Additional photos are available upon request. I am continuing to list some of my best books (especially science fiction, fantasy, and horror 1st editions) on EBAY not so much as auctions (due to the fact that EBAY charges quite a bit to list items for reserve auctions), but more along the lines of listing my “catalogue” of books that I have for sale. I'm not going to “ give” these books away, but my opening bids and Buy-It-Now prices are usually a fair amount below market value. 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