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Key to Midnight

Title Publisher Price Publication Date	Key to Midnight Pocket $ 2.50 1979
Title Publisher Price Publication Date Limited to:	Key to Midnight Dark Harvest $ 19.95 / $48.00 1989 550 numbered copies
Title Publisher Price Publication Date Limited to:	Key to Midnight Dark Harvest $ ? 1989 52 lettered copies

Order The Key to Midnight in Hardback	Order Key to Midnight in Paperback

The paperback is the true first edition of this, the first Leigh Nichols title, and with over 1,000,000 copies sold it is fairly easy to locate. The trade, numbered and lettered editions contain the complete text as Koontz intended it to be published. The trade edition hardcover and the numbered have identical dustjackets; the difference being that the numbered edition was issued with a slipcase and a different binding, including a signed limitation page. The lettered edition came with a wooden traycase and was issued without a dustjacket. Both the trade edition and the numbered edition are fairly difficult to locate, and the lettered is even harder to find. The price of the trade edition is usually reasonable but the price for the numbered is to the higher end of the casual collector's range. As for the lettered edition, expect to pay even more. It was revised and reissued in paperback under Koontz's name by Berkley Books in 1995 and sold more than 2,000,000 additional copies.

You have the first paperback edition if it states "First Pocket Books printing June, 1979" and the number series "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" is printed on the copyright page.

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