NMLP P-037912 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels

Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) · New American Library, New York · 1985

The omnibus collects Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork and The Running Man — the first hardcover appearance of all four — and opens with King's essay 'Why I Was Bachman.' The hardcover run was small beside the simultaneous trade paperback, and first-printing hardcovers are hard to find in any condition

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-037912 for "The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels" by Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037912, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).