Good afternoon and greetings again from veryfinebooks!
We are excited to announce a new item up for auction that may appeal to you as a Stephen King collector. This is The New Lieutenant's Rap rare proof, a book that very few collectors in the world own - you now have an opportunity to own
this as well. This is the 24-page softcover book that was published by King's own Philtrum Press in 1999.
The book was originally produced in 3 states:
1. The 200-500 "officially distributed" numbered and signed copies (with necklace and gordon book)
2. The 24 signed ARC proofs. Proof State Copies. These were NOT signed by Stephen King, but had a form letter laid in by Michael Alpert explaining how the books came to be and why they were unsigned
3. An unspecified number of unsigned ARC proofs (of which this is one of those copies). The number of unsigned ARC proofs is quite low. There are probably less than 400 of all 3 states combined (excluding the unclaimed signed ones supposedly in King's safe).
THIS IS ONE OF THE UNSPECIFIED NUMBER OF UNSIGNED COPIES
From the inside page:
"The New Lieutenant's Rap" is from Hearts in Atlantis, to be published by Scribner's in the fall of 1999. This version, which differs considerably from the one which will appear in the book (it's longer, for one thing), is offered as a little keepsake--my way of marking twenty-five fruitful (a little too fruitful, some critics would say) years as a novelist and freelance writer. It is limited to no more than 500
copies, each of which has been signed by me and numbered or lettered by Michael Alpert, who has so brilliantly executed all the Philtrum Press books, from The Plant to The Ideal, Genuine Man. The printing is my own. So are the mistakes and scratch-outs. I hope what follows makes you as uncomfortable as it does me." - Stephen King
This is a 7 day auction that ends on Monday March 25th , 8pm EST.
