Different Seasons Collectible
What it’s about
Different Seasons gathers four Stephen King novellas, one for each season, that step outside his usual horror lane into stories of friendship, survival, and the darkness inside ordinary people. A wrongly convicted banker endures decades behind prison walls; four boys hike into the woods to find a dead body; a teenager strikes up a sinister bargain with an aged Nazi war criminal living in his suburb; and a doctor recounts a strange tale told at a gentlemen's club. It is King at his most novelistic, trading monsters for the cruelties and loyalties of human nature.
Significance A landmark 1982 collection whose novellas spawned three acclaimed films — "The Shawshank Redemption" (from "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption"), "Stand by Me" (from "The Body"), and "Apt Pupil" — making it one of the most-adapted works in King's canon.
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
- Verified Jacket price jacket — Printed "$16.95" at the upper front flap on an intact, unclipped jacket — present on every trade jacket, deleted on the Book Club jacket.
- Verified Rear ISBN box jacket — Printed white "ISBN 0-670-27266-3" numbers bar on the rear panel by the Viking colophon — present on trade jackets (10/10 in a 30-listing photo sweep), deleted on the Book Club jacket (0/6).
- Asserted Spine title color book — Jacket off, the spine title "Different Seasons" is stamped GOLD on a first printing; silver/white = a later printing or Book Club copy (4/4 confirmed firsts gold, 8/8 later-or-BCE silver/white, 0 crossover). Strong-corroborating, not sole proof.
Disqualifies it — book-club or later
- Verified No flap price (intact jacket) — An intact, unclipped jacket with NO printed flap price is a Book Club Edition — the absence of the $16.95 is the single most reliable trade-vs-BCE tell.
- Asserted "Book Club Edition" on flap — "Book Club Edition" printed on the lower front flap where the $16.95 would sit.
Proves nothing — shared traps
- Shared "0882" date code — The "0882" front-flap date code is reused on the Book Club jacket plate — present on both, so it proves nothing.
- Shared Copyright statement + address — The BCE shares the identical "First Published in 1982 by The Viking Press" line and the 625 Madison Avenue address — so the copyright page does not separate trade from club. It DOES flag era, though: a copy reading "40 West 23rd Street, N.Y. 10010" is a post-March-1983 reprint (not the 1982 first). Read 625 Madison as "1982-era," 40 West 23rd as "a later reprint."
What to look for
- Judge the JACKET by two printed tells — the front-flap $16.95 AND the rear “ISBN 0-670-27266-3” numbers bar; a first-state trade jacket has both, the Book Club jacket deletes both.
- Judge the BOOK by the spine — jacket off, the title “Different Seasons” is stamped GOLD on a first printing; silver or white means a later printing or Book Club copy.
- Both must agree. A priced first jacket on a silver-title (club/later) book — or the reverse — is a married copy, not a true first.
- The copyright page is NOT a tell — the Book Club shares the identical “First published in 1982” line and 625 Madison Avenue address.
- The “0882” flap date code IS shared and proves nothing (the old “barcode reused” claim was wrong — the club jacket actually deletes the rear ISBN box).
- It’s a Viking book — there is NO Doubleday gutter code to hunt for.
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 genuine Viking 1982 first/first: the decisive book tell — the GOLD-stamped spine title, jacket off — and both decisive jacket tells — the unclipped printed $16.95 and the rear-panel ISBN numbers bar — are all legibly photographed on the one copy, leaving nothing outstanding on the question of edition (the heavy spine-head chipping is a condition matter, not an edition one).
- Binding — Photo 8 has the jacket off with the spine at the left and the front board facing: the spine title "Different Seasons" is stamped GOLD against silver "Stephen King" and "Viking" — the decisive book tell — over a navy cloth spine and blue boards, with the gilt "SK" at the lower fore-corner of the FRONT board.
- Jacket price — Photo 4, the jacket laid flat, prints "ISBN 0-670-27266-3 >$16.95" across the head of the front flap with the corner square and whole (unclipped), and "0882" still at the flap foot — read at full resolution, not inferred from the seller's text.
- Dust jacket — That same frame (photo 4) shows the printed white "ISBN 0-670-27266-3" numbers bar on the rear panel beneath the black-and-white author-and-son photograph — the trade-only element a book club jacket deletes — with the Kinuko Y. Craft seasons-wheel front panel and the Viking Press / 625 Madison Avenue imprint on the rear flap.
- Copyright — Photo 1 is a square-on shot of the copyright page reading "First published in 1982 by The Viking Press / 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022" with no reprint or later-printing line, which excludes the post-March-1983 "40 West 23rd Street" Viking reprint — though the club edition reuses this same setting, so it corroborates rather than decides.
- Number line — Photo 1 shows the copyright page whole, down to "Set in Linotron Garamond", with no number row anywhere — correct for this Viking title, where the statement stands alone.
- Endpapers / edges — Photo 2 shows the front board open to a white pastedown and white free endpaper (that leaf carries a previous owner's ink signature — provenance, not an edition point), and photo 3 the top edge carrying no publisher's edge colour.
✓ Decisive marker pictured — nothing outstanding to request.
A genuine Viking 1982 first/first with the decisive book tell (gold-stamped spine title, jacket off) and both decisive jacket tells (unclipped printed $16.95, rear-panel ISBN numbers bar) legibly photographed on the one copy, so it is not a married copy and nothing decisive is outstanding — only the endpapers go unpictured, and they settle nothing.
- Binding — Photo 4 shows the case jacket-off with both boards splayed: the spine title "Different Seasons" is stamped GOLD against silver "Stephen King" and "Viking" — the decisive book tell — over a navy quarter-cloth spine and lighter blue boards, with the gilt "SK" at the lower fore-corner of the front (right-hand) board and the rear board plain.
- Jacket price — Photo 2, the flaps laid open, prints "ISBN 0-670-27266-3 >$16.95" at the head of the front flap with the corner square and intact — read at full resolution and not clipped.
- Dust jacket — Photo 3, the jacket off the book and laid out, shows the printed white "ISBN 0-670-27266-3" numbers bar on the rear panel — the trade-only tell the book club jacket deletes — alongside the Craft seasons-wheel front panel, while photo 2 supplies the rear flap's Viking Press / 625 Madison Avenue imprint.
- Copyright — Photo 6 is a full, crisp page shot reading "First published in 1982 by The Viking Press / 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022" with no reprint notation, ISBN 0-670-27266-3 and "Set in Linotron Garamond" below, which excludes the post-1983 "40 West 23rd Street" reprint — though the club edition shares this setting, so it corroborates rather than decides.
- Number line — Photo 6 shows the copyright page complete with no number row at all — the correct first-state setting for this Viking title.
- Edges — Photo 1 shows the text block's top edge and fore-edge carrying no publisher's edge colour — untinted, as the first calls for — with the headband visible at the spine head.
- Endpapers — No frame opens the front board, so the white endpapers and pastedowns are never pictured — photo 5 is the title-page opening, not the endpapers; ask the seller for a straight-on shot of the open front cover, though it is a corroborating point only and both decisive tells are already in hand.
Right text, binding and Viking flaps, but the jacket is price-clipped so the decisive $16.95 is gone — leans first, cannot be confirmed from photos.
- Copyright — Copyright page stands alone (photo 18): 'First published in 1982 by The Viking Press / 625 Madison Avenue' — no reprint line, no number row. The true-first statement.
- Binding — Light-blue cloth boards, navy quarter-cloth spine, gilt 'SK' on the front board (photo 14), gilt spine titling (photo 15).
- Dust jacket — Full Viking flaps with ship colophon + 625 Madison Avenue (not a blank BCE flap); rear board clean — no BOMC/SFBC blind-stamp (photo 16).
- Jacket price — DECISIVE $16.95 GONE — jacket is price-CLIPPED, so the sole trade-vs-BCE tell can't be read. The 0882 code is NOT a discriminator (BCE reuses the plate). Treat a clipped copy with suspicion.
Reads like a trade first but the decisive $16.95 flap is unshown — confirm the priced corner; VG+/VG with a bookplate caps it ~$60-110.
- Copyright — Copyright page matches the true first exactly: 'First published in 1982 by The Viking Press / 625 Madison Avenue' — no number line, no reprint statement.
- Copyright — 'Also by' list ends at Cujo + Danse Macabre — right for 1982; Linotron Garamond / 'Printed in the USA' line present.
- Dust jacket — Correct first-state art (four-season medallion) front, James Leonard rear photo; trade ISBN 0-670-27266-3 in the rear box.
- Jacket price — DECISIVE $16.95 flap not photographed — the only sure trade-vs-BCE tell. Ask for a square shot of the upper front flap (bare corner = ~$10-25 Book Club).
- Endpapers / edges — Bookplate ('Ex Libris Sashai McClure') + pencil notations on the front free endpaper, plus front-panel jacket scuffing — get clear shots before paying.
Strong trade-first signals (statement, binding, 0882 flap) but the $16.95 itself is folded out of view — confirm the price; at $80 it's under fair value.
- Copyright — Copyright page matches the trade first exactly: 'First published in 1982 by The Viking Press / 625 Madison Avenue', no number line, no reprint line (ISBN 0-670-27266-3).
- Binding — Blue cloth boards, navy quarter-cloth spine, bright gilt 'SK' monogram on the front board, 'Viking' at the spine foot.
- Dust jacket — Full Viking-imprint priced-flap layout with the '0882' date code present and NO 'Book Club Edition' stamp; correct first-state art.
- Jacket price — DECISIVE $16.95 not legible — price corner is folded under. The intact '0882' flap end argues against a clip; ask for a flat, square shot of the corner.
- Binding — Two text leaves have a closed crease/short tear at the top edge near the gutter (photo 7), plus tiny jacket edge tears — request close-ups.
Jacket-only, and the seller's own text says 'first Canadian edition' — not the US Viking first; no interior proof, do not pay first money at $225.
- Dust jacket — Lone photo shows only the jacket: four-season sundial front art, Viking colophon, spine titling, rear B&W author photo — correct first-state art.
- Jacket price — DECISIVE $16.95 not shown — the front flap is folded under in the single photo; can't tell unclipped vs clipped.
- Copyright — No copyright page pictured — can't verify the 'First published 1982 by Viking' statement or the absence of a number line. Ask for a title-verso shot.
- Binding — Blue cloth boards hidden under the jacket — never photographed. RED FLAG: seller calls it a 'first CANADIAN edition,' NOT the US Viking first this targets.
Indeterminate between a trade first and the Book Club Edition — the lone deciding $16.95 was never shown; demand a square upper-front-flap shot before paying ~$125.
- Jacket price — DECISIVE $16.95 NOT photographed — the only reliable trade-vs-BCE tell, cropped from all 17 photos; corner can't be confirmed clipped or intact. INDETERMINATE vs the BCE.
- Copyright — Copyright statement (photo 3) is IDENTICAL on the BCE, and the 0682/0882 flap code is shared (same reused plate) — neither proves a first. Need the priced corner.
- Dust jacket — Kinuko Craft art, James Leonard photo, gilt 'SK' device, sewn block, white endpapers all pictured — but ALL shared with the BCE, so none confirms a first.
Full identification detail & sourcescopyright · jacket · binding · book-club traps · print run · value · references
YES — the Viking trade hardcover is the true first edition. There is NO small-press or limited edition preceding it (unlike Cycle of the Werewolf, The Eyes of the Dragon, or the early Dark Tower volumes). This is a four-novella collection ("Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," "Apt Pupil," "The Body," "The Breathing Method"). No signed/numbered limited was issued at publication; signed copies exist only as author-inscribed/in-person-signed trade firsts (e.g., the Bauman copy inscribed "For Mary... Stephen King 7/24/82"). Reference: Brooks A17. The simultaneous US Book-Club Edition (BOMC/SFBC) is NOT a first and is a frequent trap because it shares the SAME copyright-page wording and SAME publisher address (625 Madison Avenue) as the true first (see BCE tells). ISBN 0-670-27266-3 (9780670272662), 527 pp.
First-printing points at a glance
Dust jacket
Pictorial dust jacket with seasonal/allegorical cover imagery by Kinuko Y. Craft that, per reviewers, "perfectly encapsulates the diversity of the stories" — befitting the "four novellas, four seasons" theme. Title and author across the front, spine lettering, rear panel and flaps with publisher text (publisher address 625 Madison Avenue on the jacket). Author photo present on rear panel/back flap (standard for the period). Full first-state front-flap layout: $16.95 price at the upper front flap plus the "0882" date code at the foot of the flap. (Exhaustive front/back art description not collated from a single authoritative source; see Bookscans/Suntup print for a jacket image.)
Art / design: Kinuko Y. Craft (illustrator/cover artist). CONFIRMED — Suntup Editions' licensed fine-art-print page states this "stunning artwork by Kinuko Craft graced the first US edition of the novel in 1982," and the artwork was reused on subsequent paperbacks. The separately claimed jacket-DESIGN credit "R. Adelson" remains UNVERIFIED (single uncorroborated summary). NOT Rob Wood (Wood illustrated King's later-1990s Viking jackets).
Also watch for: Title-specific cautions: (1) MARRIED JACKETS — sellers swap a damaged true-first jacket for a BCE jacket, or put a priced first-edition jacket on a BCE book; verify the book's blue-cloth/navy quarter-cloth binding AND the jacket's $16.95 + "0882" together. (2) PRICE-CLIPPED jackets — a clipped corner can hide that a jacket never had a price (BCE) being passed off as a clipped first; treat price-clipped examples with suspicion on this title. (3) "Without the dust jacket you cannot be certain trade vs. book club" (forum admin) — and a jacketless first is worth only a few dollars; the value is overwhelmingly in the priced DJ. (4) Ex-library copies (stamps, pockets, spine labels) and remainder marks (sprayed/marker dot to bottom edge) reduce value. (5) Facsimile/reproduction jackets exist; inspect paper/gloss and printing quality. Always confirm BOTH the book (blue cloth + navy quarter cloth, gilt initials on upper board, 527 pp) and the jacket (unclipped $16.95, "0882" date code) before paying first-edition money.
Print run & scarcity
Format: trade hardcover (Viking Press, NY, 1982; ISBN 0-670-27266-2), King's first collection of novellas (incl. "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" and "The Body"). The ~200,000-copy first-printing figure is the number that recurs across rare-book/dealer summaries; Viking did not announce an official press figure in the book, so treat it as the commonly-cited estimate rather than a publisher-confirmed number. NOT a Bachman title — published under Stephen King's own name. No Donald M. Grant or signed/numbered/lettered limited edition exists for the Viking first edition; collectible "first printing" copies are simply the standard trade hardcover with the full number line. Later Scribner reissues are separate printings and not relevant to the 1982 first-printing count.
First-state points & errata
No internal text errata separates the printings — identification is external and is a TWO-SIDED (book + jacket) test, verified 2026-06-24 against a confirmed owner BCE, a confirmed eBay first, and a 30-listing photo sweep. JACKET — two trade-only tells, BOTH deleted on the BCE: (1) the printed "$16.95" at the upper front flap; (2) the printed white "ISBN 0-670-27266-3" numbers bar on the rear panel by the Viking colophon (present on 10/10 trade jackets, absent on 6/6 BCE jackets in the sweep). The "0882" front-flap date code is SHARED and proves nothing. BOOK — a first-PRINTING tell (jacket off): the spine title "Different Seasons" is stamped GOLD on the first printing; later trade printings AND the BCE use SILVER/white (4/4 confirmed firsts gold, 8/8 later-or-BCE silver/white, 0 crossover). Treat the gold title as STRONG-CORROBORATING (small later-printing board sample), not sole proof. MARRIED-COPY GUARD: a true 1st/1st needs the gold-title BOOK and the priced + ISBN-bar JACKET together — a priced first jacket on a silver-title (later/club) book, or the reverse, is a married copy, not a first. ("The 16.95 first state jacket" remains the operative jacket-state phrase; boards are blue cloth + navy quarter-cloth as described.)
Limited & signed editions
None at publication. No signed/numbered/traycased limited edition was issued for the 1982 Viking first. "Slipcased" copies offered by dealers are custom/aftermarket clamshell or slipcase housings added to a trade first, not a publisher limited. Author-signed copies are in-person-signed/inscribed trade firsts. (Suntup Editions later licensed the cover art for a fine-art print and has produced/announced fine-press King titles, but that is NOT part of the original 1982 first-edition identification.)
Market value estimate
~$150–$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: ~$175 — Bookshop Apocalypse dealer sale/listing, unsigned 1st/1st, jacket unclipped $16.95, near-fine (2025). ~$127 — eBay sold, 1st ed w/ jacket, condition unspecified (2024). Bauman Rare Books — inscribed presentation 1st (dated 4/21/92), now SOLD, price withheld (historical Bauman SK-inscribed firsts of this title sit low-to-mid four figures). Heritage Auctions lot 817-2503, signed 1st — realized price NOT retrievable (page blocked); not fabricated.
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): $150–400 (genuine unsigned trade first, fine/fine, unclipped $16.95/0882 jacket). Signed/inscribed firsts: ~$1,200–3,500+
Book-club edition (the trap): $15–40. Book Club Edition (Viking/BOMC) is abundant. THE SOLE reliable giveaway is a jacket with NO printed $16.95 price. CORRECTION (2026-06-24): the BCE REUSES the trade jacket plate — same art, the SAME "0882" date code, AND the rear barcode — deleting only the price; so a present 0882 code does NOT indicate a first (Paz Rare Books' explicit-BCE collation: "first state jacket with no price, but the 0882 code present... the missing jacket price is the only evidence of being a book club edition"). The old "silver-first / gold-BCE spine lettering" rule was cross-title bleed from BLACK HOUSE and is NOT valid for Different Seasons — spine color is unsettled here and is not a tell. A rear-board blind-stamp, if present, would confirm a club copy, but it is not documented as reliably present on this title. Worthless-to-junk relative to the trade first. — a fraction of a true first; never pay first-edition money for one.
Condition-driven: the dust jacket is ~80–90% of value — a clipped or married/facsimile jacket guts the price; spine fade and edge wear are the common downgraders. Signed adds a large premium. THE discriminators for THIS title (verified 2026-06-24 against a confirmed owner Book Club copy, a confirmed eBay first, and a 30-listing photo sweep, 0 crossover): it is a VIKING book, so there is NO Doubleday gutter code (a red-herring trap borrowed from other SK titles). The first-state JACKET carries TWO printed trade-only tells — the "$16.95" on the front flap AND the printed white "ISBN 0-670-27266-3" numbers bar on the rear panel; the Book Club jacket DELETES BOTH (present 10/10 trade, absent 6/6 BCE in the sweep — correcting the earlier Paz reading that the BCE "reused the rear barcode": the owner's BCE and every sweep BCE show a bare rear panel). The shared "0882" front-flap date code is NOT a discriminator. The BOOK corroborates jacketless: the spine title is stamped GOLD on a first printing, SILVER/white on later/club copies (4/4 firsts gold, 8/8 later-or-BCE silver/white). Judge by the printed $16.95 + the rear ISBN box (jacket) with the gold spine title (book): a priced first jacket on a silver-title body — or the reverse — is a married copy. Price corner clipped or unphotographed = INDETERMINATE (request a square-on shot of the upper-front-flap corner before paying first-edition money).
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Verification notes: Independent NEW sources added this pass: (a) HobbyLark Stephen King first-edition value guide; (b) Suntup Editions licensed cover-art print page (CONFIRMS jacket artist Kinuko Y. Craft "graced the first US edition in 1982"); (c) second stephenkingcollector forum thread t2215 (admin collation); (d) AbeBooks ISBN 9780670272662 page (527 pp, ISBN confirm); (e) eBay 145082963845 ("16.95 first state jacket"). CORRECTIONS vs draft: (1) JACKET ARTIST upgraded from low-confidence/UNVERIFIED to CONFIRMED Kinuko Y. Craft (Suntup + cross-search). The "R. Adelson" design credit stays UNVERIFIED. (2) ENDPAPERS resolved from UNVERIFIED to WHITE endpapers/pastedowns (AbeBooks collation); added gilt+white spine lettering and gilt author-initials on upper board. (3) PUBLISHER ADDRESS pinned to 625 Madison Avenue (forum admin) — sharper than draft's vague "same address"; this is the precise shared BCE-trap datum. (4) BOARD MATERIAL DISCREPANCY recorded: forum admin + Bauman say BLUE CLOTH sides ("blue cloth," "half blue cloth"); some eBay/AbeBooks listings say blue PAPER-covered boards. Draft asserted paper boards as fact; corrected to flag the split and prefer the dealer-collation "blue cloth" reading while noting both. (5) Flagged and rejected a stray search-summary claim of "black boards with copper lettering" — that is bleed-over from a different King title; every primary Different Seasons collation reports BLUE. (6) Added 527 pp + ISBN 0-670-27266-3 and ~9.5"x6.25" dimensions. CONFIRMED unchanged: $16.95 (Bauman/eBay/Bookshop Apocalypse/AbeBooks), "0882" front-flap date code (Bauman), "First Published in 1982 by The Viking Press" copyright statement (guides + forum), no number line, two-tone blue/navy quarter-cloth, Brooks A17, and the BCE same-copyright+same-address trap (forum admin: cannot be certain without the DJ). UNVERIFIED residuals: "R. Adelson" design credit; topstain color (likely plain/none); any internal first-state text errata (none documented). Two secondary dealer pages (secondstorybooks, Heritage/comics.ha.com, Ziesing) returned 403/406 and could not be read directly. (2026-07-05) ADDRESS-ERA GUARD ADDED (Viking-address class, preventive — no live Different Seasons false-confirm found in the sweep): the 1982 first and its BCE both read 625 Madison, but a "40 West 23rd Street, N.Y. 10010" address = a post-March-1983 reprint, not the 1982 first. The gold spine-title + rear-ISBN box + $16.95 tells (proven 2026-06-24) are UNCHANGED and remain the trade-vs-BCE discriminators; the address only separates 1982-era from later.