My Pretty Pony
New York: Knopf for the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989. first trade edition. Hardcover. A fine, fresh, apparently unread copy in equally fine matching slipcase. Small folio in illustrated paper covered boards. Unpaginated. Illustrated with lithographs printed by Derriere L'Etoile Studios and silkscreens by Pinwheel. First trade edition after the 1988 deluxe signed limited edition of 250 copies in steel covers. Text of the short story by Stephen King and illustrations by conceptual artist and collagist Barbara Kruger. The story is about an elderly man who is nearing death, who takes his grandson up a hill behind his house, where he gives the boy his pocket watch. He tells the boy about the "nature of time" and that, as one grows older, time moves faster and faster, slipping away in great chucks unless you hold tightly on to it. Time is the pretty pony, one with a wicked heart. King included the story in the 1993 collection of short stories "Nightmares and Deamscapes" Fine. Item #E33834
Price: $275.00