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First edition first printing of a fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock Maine, featuring Leland Grant who opens a shop with things for sale perfectly suited to any customer. Of course strange things happen when the townspeople begin to buy them. The basis for the 1993 film of the same name starring Ed Harris.

Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books (USA) Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1991. First (1st) Printing (full number line to "1") of First Edition (stated "First Published in 1991 by Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books (USA) Inc."). Very Fine in Very Fine Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, bright white, tight, straight and square, with no markings of any kind. The Binding is black quarter cloth to dark gray boards (colors uniform throughout) with author's initials and a design in bright copper on front board, bright copper title, etc., to spine, unmarked devil-red endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The pictorial Dust Jacket is intact, bright and would be flawless but for wrinkles at top of spine and price clipped from front fold. See photos. 690 pages. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2" x 2 1/8". A horror novel from an author famed for such stories, this one tells of a new shop in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine, called Needful Things, run by a mysterious stranger named Leland Gaunt. Whenever anyone walks by the shop it just happens to display an item in the window that stirs irresistible desires in that particular person to possess it. This was the basis for the 1993 film of the same name starring Ed Harris, Max von Sydow, Bonnie Bedelia, J. T. Walsh, and Amanda Plummer. NOTE: This is a heavy book (like all Stephen King books), weighing 1,140 grams / 2 lb., 8 oz., and will require extra postage for international shipment or expedited delivery. ISBN 10: 0670839531 / ISBN 13: 9780670839537

First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 690 p. The last Castle Rock novel. Fine in near fine jacket in mylar cover.

a book that has been read with care, has some light marks on front dustjacket

New York: Viking Pr, 1991. Book. N-Fine. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean unread unused copy. The 24.95 jacket has some light rubbing wear else fine. This is a big book, 690 pages with virtually none of the wear normally associated with a volume this physical size. Basis for the movie. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY..

a book that has been read with care

Needful Things is a 1991 horror novel by Stephen King. It is the first novel King wrote after his rehabilitation from drug and alcohol addiction. The story is about a shopkeeper who runs his business by exchanging goods for money and mysterious deeds performed by the customer.

Near Fine/Near Fine. Very minor soiling to text block. Small tear to DJ at spine head. Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing amulet. In addition to a token payment, Gaunt requests that each person perform a little "deed," usually a seemingly innocent prank played on someone else from town. These practical jokes cascade out of control and soon the entire town is doing battle with itself. Only Sheriff Alan Pangborn suspects that Gaunt is behind the population's increasingly violent behavior.

This is a Very Fine and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing) in a Very Fine dust jacket. In a mylar jacket cover.

First Edition. Fine in Fine dust wrapper. "Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing amulet. In addition to a token payment, Gaunt requests that each person perform a little "deed," usually a seemingly innocent prank played on someone else from town. These practical jokes cascade out of control and soon the entire town is doing battle with itself. Only Sheriff Alan Pangborn suspects that Gaunt is behind the population's increasingly violent behavior."