How many copies published?

Hi everyone!

Do you know how many copies of each King's first edition was published?

I saw The Collector (very useful website), but it's description is not perfect. For example, Dolores Claiborne, Gerald's Game, and so on. I want to know about all the King's main books.

Please help me!!!

My guess would be that the numbers are different for each book.
If The Collector doesn't have the information listed, it's probably more work to locate the information than I'm willing to do.....he's pretty thorough and knowledgeable.
You could try asking some of the guys at darktower.org----they are also extremely knowledgeable.

We've never kept a running tally/record of the first edition print runs but Sundrop is correct, it is not the same for every book. I'm not sure if it would be impossible, but to try to reconstruct that information after 38 years would be a nightmare and way more time than we're willing to put in so it won't be something you'll getting from us but perhaps there are others out there who've kept track over the years.

I have some rough figures for many of King's trade editions. PM me for specific titles you're interested it.

John

Here's an interesting listing of the estimated sales of the best selling authors of all time. All told, SK is estimated to have sold between 300 million to 350 million books. Astoundingly, this puts him behind JK Rowling who has only 8 novels to her credit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...iction_authors

I think the copies published in 1st printings peaked with IT at 1.5 million?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lZoQPvGfdG...kinCopies3.jpg

Please remember that these are numbers I gathered from various sources which may or may not be too accurate.

Gerald's Game 1,500,000
Dolores Claiborne 1,500,000
Nightmares and Dreamscapes 1,500,000
Rose Madder 1,750,000
All the Green Mile paperbacks 2,000,000 each
Desperation 1,750,000
Regulators 1,250,000
Packaged set of Desperation and Regulators 200,000
Green Mile HC 75,000
Bag of Bones 1,300,000
Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon 1,250,000
On Writing 200,000
Black House 2,000,000
From a Buick 8 1,750,000
Revised Gunslinger 60,000
Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon pop-up book 500,000
'Salem's Lot Illustrated edition 25,000
Colorado Kid paperback 1,000,000
Cell 1,100,000
Lisey's Story 1,250,000
Duma Key 1,000,000
Just After Sunset 900,000
Under the Dome 950,000
Blockade Billy 500,000
Full Dark, No Stars 1,200,000

And that's about it. If a title isn't listed, I don't have the number for it.

Again, I want to emphasize that these are rough numbers of first printings of the trade editions I didn't include any of the books from the small publishers (Grant, CD, etc.) because those are fairly easily obtained.

Hope this helps!

John

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Originally Posted by fushingfeef

Here's an interesting listing of the estimated sales of the best selling authors of all time. All told, SK is estimated to have sold between 300 million to 350 million books. Astoundingly, this puts him behind JK Rowling who has only 8 novels to her credit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...iction_authors

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That's an interesting list. Harold Robbins has sales of 750 million on only 23 books.

One that was lower than I thought was Ian Flemming. He had 100 million on 14 books which is a lot but as huge as the movie franchise has been for all these years, I thought it would be more.

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Originally Posted by jchanic

Please remember that these are numbers I gathered from various sources which may or may not be too accurate.

Gerald's Game 1,500,000
Dolores Claiborne 1,500,000
Nightmares and Dreamscapes 1,500,000
Rose Madder 1,750,000
All the Green Mile paperbacks 2,000,000 each
Desperation 1,750,000
Regulators 1,250,000
Packaged set of Desperation and Regulators 200,000
Green Mile HC 75,000
Bag of Bones 1,300,000
Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon 1,250,000
On Writing 200,000
Black House 2,000,000
From a Buick 8 1,750,000
Revised Gunslinger 60,000
Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon pop-up book 500,000
'Salem's Lot Illustrated edition 25,000
Colorado Kid paperback 1,000,000
Cell 1,100,000
Lisey's Story 1,250,000
Duma Key 1,000,000
Just After Sunset 900,000
Under the Dome 950,000
Blockade Billy 500,000
Full Dark, No Stars 1,200,000

And that's about it. If a title isn't listed, I don't have the number for it.

Again, I want to emphasize that these are rough numbers of first printings of the trade editions I didn't include any of the books from the small publishers (Grant, CD, etc.) because those are fairly easily obtained.

Hope this helps!

John

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I knew you would have info.......because you're cool like that!! :)