IT, by Stephen King - true first edition

IT, by Stephen King. 1986 first edition hardcover. 1138 pages, nice condition – tight binding and clean pages, except some staining on inside of dust jacket and the bottom of last few pages.

Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made 28 years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again, and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers. Stephen King’s terrifying, classic number one New York Times best seller, “a landmark in American literature” (Chicago Sun-Times).

First edition identifiers:
Publisher = Viking
DJ price = $22.95
Copyright page = "First published in 1986 by Viking Penguin, Inc."
Endpapers = grey