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Pet Sematary Front Cover
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Pet Sematary Title Page
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Core Fiction Hardcover Novel

1983

Pet Sematary

Doubleday

Author
Stephen King
Edition
First U.S. Trade Edition, Doubleday
Printing
First printing; stated First Edition. Gutter code Y38
ISBN
0-385-18244-9
Rarity
Uncommon
Condition
Very Good
Dust Jacket
Good

Synopsis

Pet Sematary: Louis Creed moves with his family to rural Maine, where an elderly neighbour introduces him to a burial ground beyond the local pet cemetery. After tragedy strikes, grief and desperation challenge Louis to ignore warnings about the place's ancient and destructive power.

Verification Summary

Verified Edition

Copyright page states First Edition and prints ISBN 0-385-18244-9. The first-edition guide also requires gutter code Y38 on page 374. Page-374 photograph clearly shows the partially bound-in Y38 gutter code. Together with the copyright-page First Edition statement and printed ISBN 0-385-18244-9, this verifies a Doubleday First Edition, First Printing.