The Wind Through The Keyhole:
UK Collector's Limited Edition
by Stephen King
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Slipcased Limited Edition Hardcover
Print Run: 700 with deluxe binding, photographic endpapers, and author's facsimile signature.
Publication Date: April 2012
Price: $225
Please Note: This special edition is scheduled to ship from the UK in late April and all orders are processed on a first come first, served basis. We are not getting many copies, but ours will be coming with the DJ from the UK trade edition since that has been a popular request.
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About this Special Edition:
We are pleased to report that we've managed to secure a small allotment of the Slipcased Hardcover Limited Edition of The Wind Through The Keyhole by Stephen King that his UK publisher Hodder & Stoughton is producing. This special edition is limited to just 700 special copies featuring a deluxe binding, photographic endpapers, and, like several previous UK Limited Editions, the author's facsimile signature. That means the signature is a reproduction, not a direct signature like our own Stephen King Limited Editions, but because the print run is only 700 copies (a fraction of the trade edition's print run) and because of the special care the publisher is taking in the production, we think this will be an amazing book!
About the Book:
For readers new to The Dark Tower, The Wind Through The Keyhole is a stand-alone novel, and a wonderful introduction to the series. It is a story within a story, which features both the younger and older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower. Fans of the existing seven books in the series will also delight in discovering what happened to Roland and his ka tet between the time they leave the Emerald City and arrive at the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis.
This Russian Doll of a novel, a story within a story, within a story, visits Mid-World's last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.)
Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt ridden year following his mother's death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter.
Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole."
"A person's never too old for stories," he says to Bill. "Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them." And stories like these, they live for us.
