8vo. Original maroon cloth, spine gilt-lettered (lower hinge starting); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (very slight rubbing to front flap fold, otherwise fine). 

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with code "P6" in gutter of p.199. King's first published novel employs an epistolary structure through the use of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, letters, and book excerpts to tell the story of how Carrie destroyed the fictional town of Chamberlain, Maine.