Cujo.

KING, Stephen.

Item Number: 109839

New York: The Viking Press, 1981.

First edition of “perhaps the cruelest [and] most disturbing novel” (The New York Times). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen King in a contemporary hand. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by R. Adelson. Jacket illustration by Steven Stroud. First issue dust jacket with $13.95 price and “0981” code on front flap.

On the publication of Cujo, The New York Times praised it as “perhaps the cruelest, most disturbing tale of horror King’s written yet… He certainly hits the jugular with Cujo.” In this return to a Maine setting after King’s Colorado novels, “Cujo represents the fullest and most complete elaboration of King’s ‘myth of Maine’ to date… In this novel King has… come fully into his own” (Underwood & Miller, 56-61). It was the basis for the 1983 film directed by Lewis Teague.