KING, Stephen (b. 1947). The Shining. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1977. 8vo. Original black and tan cloth with titles gilt; original dust jacket (creasing, closed tears at extremities, vertical fold at edge of front dust jacket flap, some dampstaining at near spine). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with ?R49? code in gutter on p. 447. Stephen King wrote The Shining after an overnight stay at Colorado?s Stanley Hotel in which King and his wife Tabitha found themselves the only guests. Inspired by the empty corridors and eerie silence, King completed the first draft of the book in four months. It was later adapted into the classic 1980 horror film of the same name directed by Stanley Kubrick.