- Posters.
- Postcards.
- Bookcovers (paperback and hardcover).
- Newsletters.
- Ticket stubs.
- Wizard and glass booklet.
- Photo's.
- The Dark Tower comic book series.
- IT promotional booklet.
- Paperwork. Like legal briefs and more.
- Bookmarks.
- Tickets from Stephen King readings.
- Lawnmowerman VHS cover, and stickers to cover up King's name.
- The Collector, a new introduction by S.K.
- Phantasmayoria. (Bookelt/newsletter by George Beahm)
- Promotional brochure of the stage production of Misery.
- Tickets to the halloween showing of Carrie.
- Large set of "The Red Letter" (a newsletter booklet by Greg Htchkiss).
- Trading Cards.
- Dustjackets.
- SKIN, Stephen King Information Network newletters.
- Ads clipped or torn from papers.
- Magazine pages.
And, one more thing: A scrap book. Who's scrap book? Charlie Fried's, I think. Actually, I'm pretty sure. It has his picture, and lots of persnal notes to himf rom editors. Charlie Fried was a well known super-collector. I read an interview with him in The Essential Stephen King. So there I sat with this little scrap book of really, really cool stuff -- and I'm thinking: Wow, Charlie Fried put this together! (In other words: Someone know knows what they're doing).
The Scrapbook is full of his personal notes. A lot about his trip to Maine, and ersonal pictures of things in Bangor related to King. A personal picture of King's home and the sandpipe. It is, to me at least, priceless. Not just that it can't be bought in a bookstore, but the feeling that it was assembled by someone who really thought highly of King. I thumbed through it once to figure out what it was, then kept going back to it, ralizing it was the real prize in the box. A big thanks to Betts for making this available.
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