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Product Details
This is a True First Edition / First Printing of Billy Summers (2021), Stephen King’s critically acclaimed crime‑drama novel about a hitman who only kills “bad men” and wants out of the life—after one final job. What begins as a clean, controlled assignment spirals into a layered story of identity, trauma, revenge, and unexpected redemption.
Widely praised as one of King’s strongest modern works, Billy Summers blends noir, literary fiction, and slow‑burn suspense. First printings remain highly collectible due to the novel’s reception, its grounded tone, and King’s shift into character‑driven crime fiction.
This copy retains its original $30.00 price, first‑state identifiers, and the expected Scribner first‑printing points. This book is being offered with a fine condition book and dust jacket.
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Once a specific item, edition, or production run exits the market, it cannot be reproduced, reissued, or replaced. Many pieces offered here originate from private collections assembled decades ago and have been permanently removed from normal circulation, placing them beyond conventional availability. When verifiable rarity is combined with expert authentication grounded in over 30 years of specialization, these items represent asymmetric investment opportunities, where limited supply, protected provenance, and sustained collector demand create meaningful long-term appreciation potential.
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