An edition of The Gunslinger (1976)

The Dark Tower

The Gunslinger

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An edition of The Gunslinger (1976)

The Dark Tower

The Gunslinger

First Plume Printing
  • 4.2 (40 ratings) ·
  • 666 Want to read
  • 41 Currently reading
  • 111 Have read

Since the publication of THE GUNSLINGER in an exclusive limited edition, this extraordinary novel has gained near-legendary renown. Now finally, this Plume edition, complete with the Michael Whelan illustrations, brings the work to the author's millions of fans.

This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations—The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient myth to frontier western legend. His pursuit of The Man in Black, his liaison with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendship with the kid from Earth called Jake, are part of a drama that is both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, an alchemy of storytelling sorcery.

Complete in itself, THE GUNSLINGER is the first novel in an epic series, THE DARK TOWER, that promises to be Stephen King's crowning achievement.
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English
Pages
224

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Jun 27, 2017, Simon & Schuster Audio
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2017, HODDER
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Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger: Film Tie-In
Aug 24, 2017, hodder && stoughton uk
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Jun 13, 2017, Sperling & Kupfer
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2017, Sperling & Kupfer
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The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
2017-06, Scribner
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Mroczna Wieza. Tom 1. Roland
Jun 19, 2017, Albatros
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The Gunslinger
2017?, Simon & Schuster Audio
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The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower I
Jul 11, 2017, Scribner
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Sep 27, 2017, PLAZA & JANES
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La torre oscura I : El pistolero - 1. edición.
2017, Debolsillo
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El pistolero
Feb 02, 2017, Debolsillo, DEBOLSILLO
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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
2017-07, Pocket Books
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The Gunslinger
2016-11, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Pocket Books paperback edition (8)
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The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
2016, Scribner
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The Gunslinger
2016, Turtleback
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The Gunslinger
May 3, 2016, Scribner
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Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
2016, Scribner
in English
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Strelok
2016, AST
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The Gunslinger
2013, W F Howes Ltd
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Стрелок
2013, AST
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2013, W F Howes Ltd
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Qiang xia: The gunslinger / Stephen King
2013, Shanghai wen yi chu ban she
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2013, Nautilus
in Romanian
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Dec 31, 2013, Bertrand Editora
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The Gunslinger (Dark Tower)
2012, Hodder Paperback
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The Gunslinger
Feb 01, 2012, Hodder & Stoughton
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Pistolero El
Nov 03, 2011, DEBOLS LLO
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2009, Hwang Geumgaji
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junio de 2007, Plaza & Janés Editores, S.A.
Hardcover in Spanish
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2007, Huang guan wen hua chu ban you xian gong si
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Mar 08, 2006, J'AI LU
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2005, Hodder & Stoughton
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O Pistoleiro - Col. A Torre Negra Vol. I
2004, Objetiva
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O Pistoleiro
2004, Objetiva
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Silahşor
Aug 01, 2004, Altin Kitaplar
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The Gunslinger
2003, Viking
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The gunslinger
2003-07, Plume
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Schwarz
2003, Heyne
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)
June 24, 2003, Penguin Audio
in English
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The gunslinger
2003, New English Library
in English
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Gunslinger
2003, Penguin Publishing Group
in English
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The Gunslinger
2003, Signet
in English
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Oct 05, 2003, Heyne Verlag
paperback in German - Erweiterte und überarbeitete Neuausgabe
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Gunslinger
2003, Penguin Publishing Group
in English
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Gunslinger
2003, Hodder & Stoughton
in English
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The Gunslinger
2003-07, Signet
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The Gunslinger The Dark Tower I
2003, Recorded Books
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The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
2003, New English Library
Paperback in English - New English Library edition (15)
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)
June 24, 2003, Penguin Audio
in English
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Gunslinger
2003, Penguin Publishing Group
in English
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The gunslinger
2003, s.n.]
in English
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De scherpschutter
2001, Poema Pocket
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Torre Oscura I, La
August 2000, Ediciones B
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2000-05-26, J'ai lu
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La Hierba del Diablo
Sep 16, 2000, PUNTO DE LECTURA
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)
October 1999, Rebound By Sagebrush
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Strelok
1999, AST
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Dark Tower: the gunslinger
1998, New Eng.Lib.
in English
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)
May 1, 1998, Penguin Audio
in English
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Schwarz: Der Dunkle Turm
1998, Heyne
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La Torre Oscura I
June 1, 1998, Ediciones B
Hardcover in Spanish
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The Gunslinger
1997?, Plume
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The gunslinger
1997, New English Library
in English
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L'ultimo cavaliere
1994, Sperling paperback
paperback in Italian
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Le tour sombre: Le Pistolero
1993-11, Éd. de la Seine
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Schwartz
1992, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag
in German
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The gunslinger.
1992, Warner Books
in English
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The gunslinger
1992, Warner
in English
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La Tour sombre, tome 1
1991, J'ai lu
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1989, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
1989-07, New American Library
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La hierba del diablo
1989, Ediciones B
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The dark tower.
1989, Guild Publishing
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Schwarz
1989, Heyne
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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
1989, Sphere Books Limited
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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger v 1
1989, Orbit
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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger v 1
1988, Orbit
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The gunslinger.
1988, Sphere
in English
Cover of: The Gunslinger
The Gunslinger
1988, New Audio Library
Audio book
Cover of: The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
1988-09, New American Library
Paperback in English - First Plume Printing
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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
1988, Plume
in English
Cover of: The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
1988-09, New American Library
Paperback in English - 1st Plume printing (1)
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La Hierba del diablo
1982, Plaza & Janés
Cover of: The gunslinger
The gunslinger
1982, Donald M. Grant
in English - 1st ed.
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The Gun Slinger The Dark Tower Part I
1982-01-01, Plume/Penquin Books
Cover of: The gunslinger
The gunslinger
1982, Donald M. Grant
in English - 1st ed.
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)
December 1976, Amereon Limited, Amereon Ltd
Hardcover in English
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De Scherpschutter
Publish date unknown, Luitingh
paperback
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De Scherpschutter (The Dark Tower)
Publish date unknown, Uitgeverij Luitingh - Utrecht
paperback

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
The Dark Tower
Other Titles
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
Copyright Date
1982

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813'.54-dc19
Library of Congress
PS3561.I483G86 1988

Contributors

Illustrator
Michael Whelan

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
224p.
Number of pages
224
Dimensions
9 x 6 x .75 inches

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25159730M
Internet Archive
gunslinger0000king_d5d9
ISBN 10
0452261341
LCCN
88009938
OCLC/WorldCat
519872862, 69655496
Goodreads
995103

Work Description

The Dark Tower I

The Gunslinger is a dark-fantasy by American author Stephen King. It is the first volume in the Dark Tower series.

The Gunslinger was first published in 1982 as a fix-up novel, joining five short stories that had been published between 1978 and 1981. King substantially revised the novel in 2003; this version has remained in print ever since, with the subtitle RESUMPTION.

The story centers upon Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, who has been chasing his adversary, "the man in black," for many years. The novel fuses Western fiction with fantasy, science fiction, and horror, following Roland's trek through a vast desert and beyond in search of the man in black. Roland meets several people along his journey, including a boy named Jake Chambers, who travels with him part of the way.

"The Gunslinger" (October 1978)
"The Way Station" (April 1980)
"The Oracle and the Mountains" (February 1981)
"The Slow Mutants" (July 1981)
"The Gunslinger and the Dark Man" (November 1981)

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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
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