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Revival: A Novel Common

2014 · Scribner (Simon & Schuster), New York
First-edition cover of Revival: A Novel
First-edition jacket (first edition (verified vs jacket)) · source

What it’s about

When a charismatic young minister arrives in a small New England town, six-year-old Jamie Morton forms a bond with him that will shadow both their lives for decades. After a shattering tragedy turns the reverend away from faith and toward a private obsession with the secret power of electricity, their paths keep crossing across the years — drawing Jamie, now a drifting musician, deeper into the man's increasingly forbidden experiments. A patient, character-driven descent into faith, addiction, and the hunger to know what lies beyond death.

Significance A late-career Stephen King novel King himself called one of his most frightening, written as an explicit homage to Mary Shelley, Arthur Machen ("The Great God Pan"), and H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic horror.

Is this the true first?Yes. The Scribner trade hardcover (ISBN 9781476770383), published November 11, 2014, is the true first edition, first printing. No small-press limited or paperback original precedes it. The only limited editions (LetterPress/Lividian, 2019) came FIVE YEARS later and are NOT the first.
The Scribner trade hardcover IS the true first. Unlike the early Doubleday-era titles (where a small-press limited can precede the trade, e.g. The Eyes of the Dragon / Cycle of the Werewolf) or paperback-original Bachman titles, Revival's first appearance in any form is the 2014 Scribner hardcover. The illustrated LetterPress/Lividian limited (Dec 2019) is a later collectible reissue, not a precedent first.

First-printing points at a glance

First-printing statementCopyright page states "First Scribner hardcover edition November 2014" AND carries the full number line. Per the Scribner-era convention, a true first requires BOTH the dated edition statement and the complete number line ending in (containing) the numeral 1.
Number line"1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" — the complete sequence including the "1" denotes the first printing. A later printing drops the lowest number; absence of the "1" (e.g. line beginning at 2 or higher) indicates a second or later printing.
Gutter / printer codeN/A — Scribner-era title; no Doubleday/printer gutter code applies.
First printing — copiesNot publicly disclosed
First jacket price$30.00 (with "Can. $36.00" / $36.00 Canadian) (Upper front dust-jacket flap (top right). US "$30.00" with the Canadian "$36.00" price beneath/alongside. A price-clipped jacket (corner cut away) hides this and reduces value.)
Board (panel) colorPapered boards over the rear/lower portion — dealer catalogues vary: most commonly described as black; some list the boards as navy/dark blue, and at least one as red, with the cloth on the opposite element. Treat exact board color as having minor cataloguing variance; the consistent, authoritative point is the black cloth spine. (Bauman Rare Books: "original half black cloth.")
Spine / center bindingBlack cloth spine (quarter/half-bound), with lettering on spine (variously reported as silver, or red and white). Bauman: "half black cloth."
Binding styleQuarter-bound (two-tone): black cloth spine over papered boards; sewn binding, thick octavo / approx. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Not full cloth.
Topstain / endpapersNo colored topstain reported (plain). Endpapers/pastedowns are white (plain white front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns).

Dust jacket

Dramatic holographic (reflective foil) wrap-around design: a lightning strike over a mountainside in hues of green, purple and red, with the bold title "REVIVAL" in red and silver and the author name. Reflective/holographic surface shifts color in light — a distinctive first-state jacket feature. Rear panel carries blurb/author photo; spine carries title, author, Scribner imprint.

Art / design: Jacket design by Tal Goretsky (Scribner art department). Holographic/foil wrap-around treatment. Author photo of Stephen King on rear panel/flap (Shane Leonard credited on King's Scribner-era jackets of this period — UNVERIFIED specifically for Revival).

reference photohttps://bookshopapocalypse.com/products/revival-by-stephen-king-first-edition-first-printing-2014reference photohttps://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/king-stephen/revival/109824.aspxreference photohttps://www.ebay.com/itm/284237127241
Book-club edition & fakes — how to spot a wrong copyA Revival-specific Book Club Edition is essentially not a factor — by 2014 the traditional King hardcover club edition had largely been discontinued, and no genuine BCE of Revival is documented by collector sources (UNVERIFIED that any exists). General BCE tells to apply if a suspect copy appears: a small blind-stamp (indented dot/circle/square) on the lower rear board, "Book Club Edition" printed on the lower front jacket flap, NO printed price on the flap, thinner/lighter paper, smaller trim, and glued rather than sewn binding. A true first will show the $30.00 price and the dated edition statement + number line; absence of both is the red flag.

Also watch for: Married jackets (later-printing or facsimile holographic jacket placed on a first-printing book, or vice-versa) — verify the number line in the BOOK matches an unclipped $30.00 jacket. Price-clipped jackets lower value and hide the price point. Ex-library copies (stamps, pockets, spine labels) and remainder-marked copies (spray/marker on bottom text-block edge) are not collectible firsts. "Signed first edition" copies: King signed many at the Nov 15, 2014 BookPeople (Austin, TX) event and on tour — demand reputable authentication (PSA/DNA, JSA) and beware autopen/secretarial or forged signatures; some legitimate copies bear a small BookPeople pictorial label. The holographic jacket scuffs/scratches easily — "restored" or replaced jackets occur.

Print run & scarcity

Format: hardcover trade first edition, Scribner (Simon & Schuster), published Nov 11, 2014 (announced Feb 12, 2014). Two targeted web searches found multiple first-edition/first-printing dealer listings (rare book sellers, AbeBooks, Biblio, eBay) and the official stephenking.com first-edition identification guide, but NONE state a specific announced first-printing quantity (number of copies). Modern Scribner King first printings are large (typically six figures) but no authoritative source publishes an exact figure for Revival, so no number is reported here rather than inventing one. First printing is identified by the full number line "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" on the copyright page (per the stephenking.com guide), not by a stated count. Note: no Donald M. Grant / small-press signed-limited or lettered edition of the Scribner Revival applies to this query (a separate Lividian Publications surfaced in search relates to a different/later King-associated project, not the 2014 Scribner trade first printing). If a precise figure is required, Publishers Weekly trade announcements (Feb 2014) or Simon & Schuster publishing records would be the authoritative place to confirm.

First-state points & errata

No widely documented errata or first-state/second-state textual point separates first-printing copies of Revival. Identification rests entirely on the dated "First Scribner hardcover edition November 2014" statement plus the complete number line containing "1." UNVERIFIED whether any minor printing variant exists; none is reported by collector sources.

Limited & signed editions

No King-signed limited at first publication. Later: LetterPress Publications (now Lividian Publications) illustrated limited, December 2019 — Signed/Slipcased Limited Edition (~1,500 copies, custom cloth-wrapped slipcase, hot-foil spine) and a Lettered Edition (three-piece leather/cloth binding in a slide-in traycase with gilt edges). Sixteen+ full-color illustrations (incl. fold-outs) by François Vaillancourt; additional film-related artwork by Vincent Chong. Signed by contributors (Josh Booe, Vincent Chong, Bev Vincent) — NOTE: Stephen King did NOT sign these editions. Retail ~$125 (slipcased). No Subterranean Press or Cemetery Dance limited of Revival exists (UNVERIFIED any other publisher limited).

Market value confirmed sales

$30–75 (genuine unsigned trade first, full number line, fine/fine unclipped $30 jacket). Signed-in-person firsts: $150–300; PSA/JSA-certified signed firsts: $250–450+

Assumes a genuine first edition / first printing in near-fine to fine condition (clean copy, unclipped jacket). Lesser condition is worth less.

Confirmed sales: Unsigned "Like New" 1st/1st sold ~$20 (eBay sold, 2024–2025); unsigned fine 1st/1st dealer-sold range ~$13–40 (AbeBooks/eBay sold, 2024–2025); signed 1st/1st w/ slipcase asked $999 (eBay, asking — not a clean comp); Letterpress signed/numbered limited (1,500 copies, NOT the trade first) sold ~$275–450 (eBay/stephenkingcollector, 2023–2025). NOTE: no formal Heritage/PBA auction records exist for the ordinary unsigned trade first — it is too common to hammer at auction; figures are dealer + eBay-sold.

Book-club edition (the trap): No true Book-of-the-Month/BCE was issued for Revival in the way older King titles were; the analogous "trap" copies are the trade paperback (~$13–15), the large-print hardcover, and ex-library/clipped firsts — all effectively $5–15. Any of these mislisted as "first edition" should be treated as near-worthless collectibly. — a fraction of a true first; never pay first-edition money for one.

Condition-sensitive but the floor is high-supply: this is a 2014 mega-bestseller, so even fine/fine the unsigned trade first stays modest ($30–75). The value lever is SIGNATURE, not the first-printing point: an in-person signed first roughly 4–6x's the price, and a PSA/JSA-authenticated signed first pushes $250–450+. The single biggest thing separating a real trade first from the mislisted copies of THIS title: it is the Scribner trade hardcover (6.25 x 9.5", $30 jacket, black quarter-cloth over navy boards, silver spine title) with the COMPLETE number line "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" — the terminal "1" must be present (its removal = later printing). Reject the softcover, the large-print edition, price-clipped jackets, and the Letterpress signed/limited (a different book entirely, not the trade first). There is no Doubleday gutter code on this title — that point belongs to King's 1970s–80s Doubleday books, not Scribner 2014.

Value sources:

Sources

Verification notes: Price and number line cross-checked across WebSearch result summaries citing rarebookcellar.com, parigibooks.com, biblio.com/BiblioStax, bookshopapocalypse.com, and Bauman Rare Books, plus the johnatkinsonbooks.co.uk first-US-edition listing — all agree on $30.00 unclipped and the dated First Scribner hardcover edition statement. Binding "half/quarter black cloth" confirmed directly via Bauman Rare Books listing. Limited-edition details confirmed via stephenking.com/works/limited/revival.html and lividian.com. Board-color variance flagged rather than guessed.

confidence: High on the load-bearing points: price ($30.00 / Can $36.00, upper front flap), copyright statement ("First Scribner hardcover edition November 2014"), and number line ("1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2") — each cross-confirmed by 3+ independent collector/dealer sources, consistent with documented Scribner-era convention. Medium on exact board color (dealer descriptions vary black/navy/red over a consistently black cloth spine) and lower on author-photo credit (UNVERIFIED) and whether any BCE exists (none documented).← Back to all titles