Kubrick's Copy Of THE SHINING

image credit: The Overlook Hotel

I spotted this first at my favorite Stephen King website, Lilja's Library.

A website titled The Overlook Hotel has posted pictures of Stanley Kubrick's working copy of The Shining.

Stanley Kubrick’s personal copy of Stephen King’s novel, The Shining. This well-worn book, now housed in the Stanley Kubrick Archive in London, is filled with Kubrick’s notes and comments. Many passages are highlighted, and Kubrick has filled the margins with hand-written notes that run the gamut from notating passages that inspire him, to crossing out sections he found silly.

This is exciting, since I just got my first edition of The Shining this week.  (Oooh, ebay, I love thee!)  First thing I did, check to make sure it was a clean copy!  Notice that Kubrick was writing in a first edition.  Usually these are devalued by writing in them. . . unless it's Stanley Kubrick doing the writing!

Hummm, no notes on the moon landing spotted here!

Okay, here's the photo's.  They are all from the Overlook Hotel.  Nice site, by the way.