First edition Stephen King books are a rarity, but if you've got one lying around your home library, you could sell it for a good chunk of change.

Book collecting ... "Rage" are 1977 first-edition mass-market paperbacks in good condition. It seems like an odd thing to spend thousands of dollars on, but hey, Stephen King fans are intense.

Through the first half of the 1980s, Stephen King maintained a closely guarded secret. The author had firmly established ...