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1989. First Edition . Signed. (KING, Stephen) THOMPSON, Jim. The Killer Inside Me. Los Angeles: Blood & Guts, 1989. Octavo, original gilt-stamped black cloth, original dust jacket, original slipcase. $1300.First signed limited edition of the first hardcover edition of Thompson's legendary novel, copy 262 of only 350 numbered copies signed by Stephen King (376 total), with King's introductory essay, this edition issued posthumously nearly four decades after the 1952 Lion Books paperback, a fine copy in the original slipcase.""Jim Thompson brought a level of psychological realism to crime novels seldom achieved by writers in that or any other genre"" (Magill IV:1590). In King's introduction to this limited edition of Killer Inside Me, signed by King, he writes that the novel is ""as timeless and as important as it ever was… an American classic, no less, a novel which deserves space on the same shelf with Moby-Dick, Huckleberry Finn, Sun Also Rises… Read More