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A Rare Over-Sized Production with Stainless Steele Covers and Artwork, personally hand signed by Stephen King and Barbara Kruger.
Whitney Museum of American Art. New York. 1988 “My Pretty Pony” Stephen King. Folio. pp. 64. Contemporary artists’ book with original lithographed pages throughout designed by Barbara Kruger. Text by Stephen King. Bound in grey cloth covered boards, red leather spine. Both front and back covers coated with fixed sheets of stainless steele, with digital clock mounted on front. From the edition limited to 280 copies personally hand signed by both Stephen King and Barbara Kruger on the justification page. Housed in a custom hand-crafted cloth clam-shell case. The spine bears the title in silver over red embossments. A beautiful production, and most likely the heaviest King signed limited edition produced.
My Pretty Pony is a short story by Stephen King. Originally published in 1989 as an oversized, slipcased edition (with stainless steel faced boards and digital clock inset into front cover) commissioned for the Whitney Museum in New York as a coffee table book, it was later included in King’s collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes.
Plot summary
An elderly man, his death rapidly approaching, takes his young grandson up onto a hill behind his house and gives the boy his pocket watch. Then, standing among falling apple blossoms, the man also “gives instruction” on the nature of time: how when you grow up, it begins to move faster and faster, slipping away from you in great chunks if you don’t hold tightly onto it. Time is a pretty pony, with a wicked heart.