Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales Collectible
What it’s about
Stephen King gathers fourteen tales of dread, ranging from the supernatural to the quietly horrific: a hitchhiker who won't stay dead, a man trapped in an airport bathroom stall by a malign presence, a young drifter who discovers his strange gift is worth a corporate paycheck, and a gunslinger's detour into a haunted way station. Spanning ghosts, grief, addiction, and everyday cruelty, it showcases King across registers from pulp shocker to literary unease. A collection for readers who want the full range of his short-form imagination in one volume.
Significance Collects King's O. Henry Award-winning "The Man in the Black Suit" and the Dark Tower-linked "The Little Sisters of Eluria"; "1408" became the 2007 John Cusack film and "Riding the Bullet" was King's pioneering 2000 e-book release.
How to spot a true first 30-second check
A true 1st/1st needs BOTH the book and the jacket verified. A first-state jacket on a later or book-club book — or the reverse — is a married copy, not a first.
The verification ledgerevery marker, graded — verified · asserted · unverified
Verified seen on a confirmed copy Asserted sourced, not yet photographed Unverified thin / contested
A true 1st/1st must show
- Asserted Number line book — Full Scribner number line "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" on the copyright page with the "1" present (King's official guide + AbeBooks consensus). Missing-1 line = later trade printing.
- Asserted Edition statement book — Copyright page reads "First Scribner edition" / "First Scribner hardcover edition" — present on the first printing (and, note, usually also on the BOMC body, which reuses the plate).
- Asserted Publisher / binding book — Scribner (Simon & Schuster), 2002; ISBN-10 0743235150 / ISBN-13 9780743235150; ~6½ x 9½ trade octavo, sewn, ~459-464 pp. Board color is contested (dealer consensus: light/pale blue boards with a darker blue cloth spine and silver titling; one source says black boards) and is descriptive, not a decisive tell.
- Asserted Jacket price jacket — Unclipped US price "$28.00" on the upper front inside flap — the single decisive jacket tell (confirmed in King's official guide and dealer listings).
- Asserted Jacket art jacket — Stark, predominantly white pictorial jacket by Mark Stutzman (book/jacket design Erich Hobbing). The BOMC uses this SAME art, so art is not a tell — only the priced flap is.
Disqualifies it — book-club or later
- Asserted Stripped number line — A copyright-page line that begins at "2" or higher (lowest digit removed) is a second printing or later trade printing — not a first.
- Asserted Unpriced flap + "mp" gutter code — Book-of-the-Month Club copy: NO price on the front jacket flap AND an "mp"-series gutter code printed sideways on the bottom-right of the blank leaves near the rear (NOT on the last text page like a Doubleday code). The club uses the same cover art and usually the same number line, so the missing flap price + the "mp" code are the real club tells.
- Asserted Wrong edition — UK Hodder & Stoughton (2002) printing, the Pocket Books mass-market paperback, or any later reprint — not the true Scribner US first.
Proves nothing — shared traps
- Shared Number line / edition statement (shared with BOMC) — The full "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" line and the "First Scribner edition" statement are routinely PRESENT on the Book-of-the-Month Club body too (the club reuses the trade copyright plate, as with Black House). They prove first-vs-later-TRADE-printing but do NOT rule out a club copy — confirm the priced flap and check for an "mp" gutter code.
- Shared Cover art (shared) — The Mark Stutzman white-field jacket art is identical on the trade first and the BOMC; art alone proves nothing.
- Shared "0302" rear-barcode date code — Floated as a first-state point but unverified against King's official guide and dealer descriptions; treat as a weak secondary note, never as a decisive or disqualifying tell.
- Shared Married jacket — A first-state priced jacket can be transplanted onto a club/later body (or a clubl jacket onto a first) — the priced flap and the book's number line must agree; cross-check, do not assume.
What to look for
- Confirm BOTH: the "First Scribner" copyright wording AND the complete number line ending "10 8 6 4 2" with the 1 present — the binding test for first-vs-later TRADE printing.
- The single decisive jacket tell is the unclipped "$28.00" US price on the upper front inside flap — the Stutzman art is shared with the club, so only the priced flap proves the jacket.
- Book-club tell: NO $28.00 flap price AND an "mp"-series gutter code printed sideways on the rear blank leaves. The club reuses the trade copyright plate, so the number line is usually PRESENT and proves nothing about club-vs-trade.
- A price-clipped jacket is a condition/value caveat that also removes the decisive jacket point — not by itself a wrong edition.
- Cross-check a married jacket by agreement of the priced flap and the copyright-page number line; the rear "0302" code is an unverified secondary note, not a verification point.
- "Signed" copies are autographed trade firsts, not a separate limited — King is heavily forged; demand PSA/DNA or solid provenance.
Verified listings marker-checked
Each copy screened against the seller's own photos. ✓ confirmed = a photo shows the decisive marker; ⚠ not pictured = the shot to ask for before buying. Condition grades are as-pictured.
Buyer beware — verify before you buy. These are our screening opinions, read from each seller’s own photographs; we can misjudge a copy or misread an image. A listing marked “1st/1st confirmed” is not a guarantee — independently confirm the decisive book and jacket markers with the seller before any purchase. Authentication and the buying decision remain the buyer’s responsibility.
A Scribner 2002 trade first/first with both decisive tells legibly photographed on the same copy and the case fully documented out of its jacket — every marker that applies to this title has a frame behind it.
- Number line — A large, square close-up of the copyright plate reads the full Scribner line "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" with the "1" plainly present and no digits stripped (photo 12).
- Jacket price — The upper front inside flap prints "U.S. $28.00 / Can. $42.50" in a straight-on close-up, and the jacket laid open flat shows that same flap's top edge and corner square and whole — an unclipped priced flap, which on this title is the tell that separates a trade jacket from the club's unpriced one (photos 11 and 19).
- Copyright — The same plate carries the Scribner flame, "1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020", "Copyright (c) 2002 by Stephen King", "DESIGNED BY ERICH HOBBING", "Set in Garamond No. 3" and ISBN 0-7432-3515-0, and no "First Scribner edition" wording is printed anywhere on it — our rubric expects that line, so its absence here (as on every other plate photographed for this title) is recorded as an observation, not as a tell (photo 12).
- Dust jacket — The Mark Stutzman white-field pictorial is shown on front panel, spine and rear — the red "oh God please help us" script being printed jacket art, not an owner's hand — with the rear-flap credits reading "Jacket design by John Fulbrook III / Jacket illustration by Mark Stutzman / Author photograph by Tabitha King ... Copyright (c) 2002 Simon & Schuster Inc." (photo 19) and the rear panel's retail block reading "9 780743 235150", the "52800" add-on, "ISBN 0-7432-3515-0" and the "0302" code (photos 5 and 7), all of which our rubric treats as documentation rather than a club test.
- Binding — Jacket off, the case is quarter-bound in blue cloth with bright silver "STEPHEN KING / Everything's Eventual" and a silver Scribner flame above "SCRIBNER" at the spine tail (photos 15 to 17), and both pale paper boards are photographed and both are entirely plain, with no stamp, monogram or blind-stamp on either — but neither board frame carries a head/tail cue, so which one is the front and which the rear is not established, and this title's rubric puts no tell on either board (photos 14 and 18).
- Endpapers / edges — The block is stood on its tail twice: the fore-edge is clean cream with no remainder mark, the red headbands are intact at the spine, and the head — visible only at an oblique angle — reads plain white with no coloured topstain (photos 22 and 23).
✓ Decisive marker pictured — nothing outstanding to request.
A Scribner 2002 trade first/first with both decisive tells legibly photographed and the case shown out of its jacket; the soiling on the boards and jacket bears on condition, not on the edition.
- Number line — The copyright plate is photographed twice, the second a high-resolution close-up in which "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" reads digit by digit with the "1" unmistakable (photos 10 and 11).
- Jacket price — The upper front inside flap prints "U.S. $28.00 / Can. $42.50" with the flap head and corner intact — unclipped, and on this title the priced flap is what separates the trade jacket from the club's unpriced one (photo 9).
- Copyright — The plate reads the Scribner flame, "1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020", "Copyright (c) 2002 by Stephen King", "DESIGNED BY ERICH HOBBING", "Set in Garamond No. 3" and ISBN 0-7432-3515-0, with no "First Scribner edition" wording printed on it (photos 10 and 11).
- Dust jacket — The Stutzman white-field art runs across front panel and spine (photos 1 and 5) and the rear panel carries the paired trade barcodes with the "ISBN 0-7432-3515-0" line and the "0302" code beneath — soft-focus but legible in outline, and recorded as documentation only, since our rubric holds the "0302" unverified and not a tell (photo 8).
- Binding — Jacket off: blue cloth spine with silver-white "STEPHEN KING / Everything's Eventual" and the Scribner flame above "SCRIBNER" at the tail, shot with the spine face toward the camera and the lettering running from the head at frame-left to the flame/tail at frame-right — which fixes the up-facing board as the FRONT board, plain pale paper with no stamp of any kind (photo 13); the two other board frames carry no head/tail cue, so their sides are not established, and both are likewise plain (photos 12 and 14).
- Endpapers / edges — Head, fore and tail edges are each shown in turn — cream and unstained, no remainder mark, no coloured topstain, red headbands at the spine (photos 2, 4 and 6).
✓ Decisive marker pictured — nothing outstanding to request.
A Scribner 2002 trade first/first whose two decisive tells are both legibly photographed, but every exterior frame keeps the book inside its jacket and its protective sleeve, so the case itself is never shown.
- Number line — The copyright plate is photographed whole and reads legibly under zoom — "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" with the "1" present (photo 5).
- Jacket price — The upper front inside flap prints "U.S. $28.00 / Can. $42.50" crisply, with the flap's head and top corner square and intact — unclipped, and this is the tell that separates the trade jacket from the club's unpriced one (photo 3).
- Copyright — Scribner flame, "1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020", "Copyright (c) 2002 by Stephen King", "DESIGNED BY ERICH HOBBING", "Set in Garamond No. 3" and ISBN 0-7432-3515-0 all read on the plate, with no "First Scribner edition" wording printed on it (photo 5).
- Dust jacket — The correct Stutzman white-field pictorial is shown on front panel, spine and rear, the rear panel carrying "9 780743 235150", the "52800" add-on, "ISBN 0-7432-3515-0" and the "0302" code — documentation of the printed retail block, which our rubric does not treat as a tell (photos 1, 2, 6 and 7).
- Endpapers / edges — The endpaper beside the title page is plain and unstained and the block's fore-edge is white and clean with no remainder mark (photos 4 and 6).
- Binding — The copy is jacketed — and inside a protective sleeve — in every exterior frame, the only glimpse of the case being a sliver of blue cloth turn-in at the hinge, so the cloth spine, its silver titling, the Scribner flame at the tail and the pale paper boards are all unphotographed; ask for the jacket removed with one straight-on frame of the cloth spine plus one each of the two boards (naming each by the spine: spine at the viewer's left is the front board, spine at the right is the rear), noting that our rubric records no club-body binding difference for this title, so those frames document the Binding marker rather than excluding a club body.
- Endpapers / edges (head edge) — No frame shows the head of the block straight-on, so "plain, unstained, no decorative topstain" is unverified at that edge; ask for a straight-on shot of the head edge.
A Scribner 2002 trade first/first with both decisive tells legibly photographed; the case was never shown out of its jacket, and a Costco price sticker sits on the rear panel.
- Number line — The copyright plate is photographed and legible under zoom — "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" with the "1" present and nothing stripped (photo 5).
- Jacket price — The upper front inside flap prints "U.S. $28.00 / Can. $42.50", unclipped, with the flap head and corner square (photo 3).
- Copyright — Scribner flame, "1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020", "Copyright (c) 2002 by Stephen King", "DESIGNED BY ERICH HOBBING", "Set in Garamond No. 3" and ISBN 0-7432-3515-0 all read on the plate, with no "First Scribner edition" wording printed on it (photo 5).
- Dust jacket — The correct Stutzman white-field pictorial is shown, the red "oh God please help us" script being printed artwork on the napkin rather than an owner's hand, and the rear panel's printed "ISBN 0-7432-3515-0" and "0302" code still read — though a Costco sticker (item 447204, $15.49, costco.com) lies across the add-on barcode, so the "52800" digits themselves cannot be read (photos 1, 2, 6 and 7).
- Endpapers / edges — The endpaper beside the title page is plain and unstained, the block's tail edge shows clean at the same frame's foot, and the fore-edge is white and clean with no remainder mark (photos 4 and 6).
- Binding — The copy is jacketed in every exterior frame, so the cloth spine, its silver titling, the Scribner flame at the tail and the pale boards are unphotographed; ask for the jacket off with the cloth spine straight-on plus one frame each of the two boards named by the spine (spine at the viewer's left is the front board, spine at the right is the rear) — our rubric records no club-body binding difference on this title, so these frames document the Binding marker, they do not exclude a club body.
- Endpapers / edges (head edge) — No frame shows the head of the block straight-on, so "plain, unstained, no decorative topstain" is unverified at that edge; ask for a straight-on head-edge shot, which is also the frame that would show the seller's separately declared spotting to the top page ends (a condition matter).
A Scribner 2002 trade first/first carrying the largest and sharpest copyright plate of this seller's three copies alongside an unclipped priced flap; the case itself was never photographed out of its jacket.
- Number line — The copyright plate is shot large and square and "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" reads plainly without magnification, the "1" present — the sharpest of the three Southampton plates (photo 5).
- Jacket price — The upper front inside flap prints "U.S. $28.00 / Can. $42.50", legible and unclipped with the flap head intact (photo 3).
- Copyright — Scribner flame, "1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020", "Copyright (c) 2002 by Stephen King", "DESIGNED BY ERICH HOBBING", "Set in Garamond No. 3" and ISBN 0-7432-3515-0 all read on the plate — which also settles the listing text's "Scribner, 2001" as a seller's slip — and no "First Scribner edition" wording is printed on it (photo 5).
- Dust jacket — The correct Stutzman white-field pictorial is shown on front panel, spine and rear, the rear panel carrying the paired trade barcodes with "ISBN 0-7432-3515-0" and the "0302" code, recorded as documentation rather than a tell (photos 1, 2 and 6).
- Endpapers / edges — The endpapers are plain and unstained at both the flap and the title-page frames, and the fore-edge is clean cream with no remainder mark (photos 3, 4 and 6).
- Binding — There is no jacket-off frame at all — only a sliver of blue cloth turn-in at the hinge in the interior shots — so the silver spine titling, the Scribner flame at the tail and the pale paper boards are unphotographed; ask for the jacket removed, the cloth spine straight-on, and one frame each of the two boards named by the spine (spine at the viewer's left is the front board, spine at the right is the rear), understanding that our rubric records no club-body binding difference here, so these document the Binding marker rather than excluding a club body.
- Endpapers / edges (head edge) — No frame shows the head of the block straight-on, so "plain, unstained, no decorative topstain" is unverified at that edge; ask for a straight-on shot of the head edge.
The book block is a documented Scribner first printing in the correct trade case, but the jacket's decisive priced flap was cropped out of frame — the one gap that keeps this short of a confirmed first.
- Number line — The copyright plate is photographed square and fully legible — "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" with the "1" present, which rules out every later trade printing (photo 4).
- Copyright — Scribner flame, "1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020", "Copyright (c) 2002 by Stephen King", "DESIGNED BY ERICH HOBBING", "Set in Garamond No. 3" and ISBN 0-7432-3515-0 all read on the plate, and no "First Scribner edition" wording is printed on it (photo 4).
- Binding — The jacket is off and the cloth spine photographed down its length: blue cloth, silver-white "STEPHEN KING / Everything's Eventual", the Scribner flame above "SCRIBNER" at the tail — and because the spine face is toward the camera with its lettering running from the head at frame-left to the flame/tail at frame-right, the up-facing board is the FRONT board, plain pale paper (photo 7); the other case frame shows a board with its cloth joint but carries no head/tail cue, so that frame alone establishes no side (photo 6).
- Dust jacket — The correct Stutzman white-field pictorial front panel is shown (photo 1) and the rear flap credits read "Jacket design by John Fulbrook III / Jacket illustration by Mark Stutzman / Author photograph by Tabitha King / Printed in the U.S.A. / Copyright (c) 2002 Simon & Schuster Inc. / Distributed by Simon & Schuster Inc." (photo 5).
- Endpapers / edges — The pastedown and free endpaper beside the front flap are plain, unstained cream, with the blue cloth turn-in visible at the tail (photo 2).
- Jacket price — The flap frame cuts the price block off at the extreme top edge — enlarged, only the bottom fringe of a single printed line survives inside the frame (consistent with the tail of a "...2.50") and not one digit is legible, while the "U.S. $28.00" line is entirely outside the frame — so the decisive first-state price has never been read on this copy and an unpriced club flap is not excluded on the plates; ask for a straight-on shot of the upper front inside flap with the whole price block and the flap's top corner inside the frame.
- Dust jacket (rear panel) — No frame shows the rear panel at all, so the printed retail block at its head — the "52800" add-on, "ISBN 0-7432-3515-0" and the "0302" code — is unphotographed; ask for a straight-on shot of the barcode block at the upper right of the rear panel, as documentation (our rubric does not treat that block as a tell).
- Endpapers / edges (block edges) — No frame shows the text block's head, fore or tail edges, so "no decorative topstain" is unverified and a remainder mark is neither seen nor ruled out; ask for the head edge and the fore-edge straight-on.
Genuine trade first/first — number line legibly shown and unclipped $28 jacket; a soiled reading-grade copy, fairly priced at $16.99.
- Number line — Full Scribner line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 clearly photographed on the copyright page — begins with 1, the decisive first-printing test.
- Copyright — Copyright page shows 'Copyright © 2002 by Stephen King', Scribner flame colophon and 1230 Avenue of the Americas; ISBN 0-7432-3515-0.
- Jacket price — Rear-panel UPC add-on '52800' present = $28.00 price, unclipped first-state, plus the first-state '0302' date code beneath the barcode.
- Dust jacket — Pictorial Stutzman jacket with the first-state '0302' code on the rear panel beneath the barcode/ISBN — matches first issue.
Full identification detail & sourcescopyright · jacket · binding · book-club traps · print run · value · references
The Scribner US trade hardcover is the true first edition of the collection. No Donald M. Grant / Philtrum / Cemetery Dance signed-limited or lettered edition of this specific collection was issued to precede or accompany the trade first (unlike, e.g., the Dark Tower titles). Signed copies that circulate are the ordinary trade first edition autographed by King, not a separate limited edition. The UK first (Hodder & Stoughton, 2002) is a separate printing and not the true first; collect the US Scribner printing.
First-printing points at a glance
Dust jacket
Pictorial jacket: a stark, predominantly white field with a shadowy/uneasy figural image and subtle red accents; bold title typography (Mark Stutzman art, jacket/book design by Erich Hobbing). The rear panel carries the barcode and review/blurb matter; a "0302" date code is sometimes reported beneath the barcode but is an unverified secondary note, not a first-state point. Title-page colophon is where signed copies are typically autographed.
Art / design: Jacket illustration by Mark Stutzman; jacket/book design by Erich Hobbing.
Also watch for: Watch for: (1) price-clipped jackets hiding the $28.00 — lowers value and removes the single decisive jacket point; (2) married jackets — a club or later-printing body wearing a first-state priced jacket, or the reverse; the priced flap and the copyright-page number line must agree, so cross-check them rather than assume; (3) book-club bodies sold as "first edition" — confirm the priced $28.00 flap and check for an "mp"-series gutter code on the rear blank leaves (the club reuses the trade number line, so the line alone will not catch it); (4) ex-library copies (stamps, pockets, spine labels); (5) remainder marks on the bottom text-block edge; (6) "signed" copies without PSA/DNA or reputable provenance — King is heavily forged, demand authentication; (7) restored/facsimile jackets — common on lower-value Scribner-era titles, inspect for reprographic flatness and wrong gloss.
Print run & scarcity
Format: hardcover trade first edition, published by Scribner on 19 March 2002 (a #1 NYT bestseller). First printing is identified by the full number line "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" and the "First Scribner hardcover edition" statement on the copyright page. Two targeted web searches (collector sites stephenkingcollector.com, AbeBooks listings, Stephen King Wiki/Wikipedia, official stephenking.com) surface NO announced or stated first-printing quantity. Scribner does not publicly disclose print-run figures, and major King first printings of this era ran into the hundreds of thousands, but no exact number is documented in accessible sources — declining to invent one. No small-press/Grant signed-limited or lettered edition exists for the U.S. trade Scribner hardcover (this was a mass trade release, not a Grant limited). A separate UK first edition (Hodder & Stoughton, 2002) also exists; same lack of published print-run figure.
First-state points & errata
The single decisive jacket tell is the unclipped, unclipped-flap price "$28.00" (US) on the upper front inside flap; the priced first-state flap is what confirms the jacket. The first-printing text block carries the full number line beginning with 1 (the binding test for first-vs-later-trade printing). The Canadian "$42.50" and the rear-panel "0302" barcode date code are treated as UNVERIFIED secondary notes only — neither is confirmed in King's official guide and the "0302" code is absent from the dealer descriptions reviewed, so do not rely on either as a first-state identifier. No separate textual first-state/second-state correction is documented as a value driver for this title.
Limited & signed editions
No separate signed/numbered/lettered/traycased limited edition of the COLLECTION was published. Signed copies on the market are the standard trade first edition autographed by King (signature on the title-page/colophon); PSA/DNA-authenticated examples exist. (The Dark Tower prequel story "The Little Sisters of Eluria" inside the book had earlier appeared in the 1998 "Legends" anthology — that is a separate book, not a limited of this title.)
Market value estimate
~$20–$400
Assumes a genuine first edition / first printing in near-fine to fine condition (clean copy, unclipped jacket). Lesser condition is worth less.
Sale evidence no verified realized price: Unsigned true first, fine/fine: commonly clears ~$20–45 on eBay sold and AbeBooks dealer-sold (multiple, 2023–2025). Signed-on-title-page true first, near-fine/fine: First and Fine (firstandfine.com) listed/sold a signed first (now out of stock), with comparable signed copies on AbeBooks transacting in the ~$200–350 band (2023–2025). Note: I could NOT locate a discrete Heritage Auctions or PBA Galleries sold lot for this title — it is too common to be lotted individually — so these are dealer/marketplace sold-tier comps, not auction-house records. I have not fabricated an auction comp.
No confirmed sale found, so this is rated at no less than its original jacket price — a true first/first should hold at least retail in near-fine/fine condition. Soft estimate from dealer listings (treat as approximate): $20–60 (unsigned true first, fine/fine, unclipped); $150–400 (signed true first, fine/fine)
Book-club edition (the trap): $3–10. No true Scribner first ever had a book-club twin from Scribner, but BOMC/SFBC-style club printings and remainder/ex-library trade copies are the trap; they are worth only a few dollars and are routinely mislisted as "1st edition." — a fraction of a true first; never pay first-edition money for one.
Unsigned 2002 King trade first in fine/fine, unclipped is only a $20–60 book — it was printed in huge quantity and is not scarce; condition barely moves the needle. The real money is a VERIFIED King signature (signed-on-title-page firsts ~$150–400; dated/inscribed or PSA/JSA copies at the top). Price-clipping removes 30–50% of an already-low unsigned value. THE key first-printing tell vs. the mislisted traps: copyright page must show the FULL number line "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" (numeral 1 present) plus the stated "First Scribner edition" line AND an unclipped $28.00 on the front jacket flap. Book-club copies drop the stated-edition line, often show a blank upper-right number block above the rear-panel barcode, use slightly smaller/lighter boards, and carry no price — plus watch for ex-library and married/facsimile jackets passed off as firsts.
- https://stephenking.com/other/identifying_first_editions.pdf
- https://www.firstandfine.com/product/king-stephen-2002-everythings-eventual-us-signed-first-edition/
- https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/everythings-eventual/author/stephen-king/first-edition/signed/
- https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/everythings-eventual/author/stephen-king/first-edition/book/
- https://www.tomfolio.com/publishers/BookClubID.html
Sources
- https://www.stephenkingcollector.com/1st/eventual.html
- https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/everythings-eventual/author/stephen-king/first-edition/
- https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=king+stephen&dj=on&sortby=100&tn=everythings+eventual&cm_sp=mbc-_-ats-_-filter
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything's_Eventual
- https://www.firstandfine.com/product/king-stephen-2002-everythings-eventual-us-signed-first-edition/
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything%27s_Eventual
- https://stephenking.com/works/collection/everythings-eventual.html
Verification notes: Price $28.00 confirmed by AbeBooks dealer listings + multiple searches; Canadian $42.50 from AbeBooks binding-description fetch. Number line "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" confirmed by AbeBooks listings + stephenkingcollector.com. "First Scribner hardcover edition" statement from two independent search syntheses. Jacket artist Mark Stutzman confirmed by Wikipedia + search; designer Erich Hobbing from AbeBooks fetch. "0302" rear-barcode first-state point from two searches. Binding color reconciled across three dealer-description quotes ("light blue with a darker blue cloth spine"); single "black boards" mention treated as outlier/low-weight.