I have a suggestion: if you're looking at buying this on eBay I would suggest that you don't. As Mod can attest, Mr. King's signature has changed so much over the years. You have the early year sigs and the later year sigs. Obviously EOW is a later years however, that one looks iffy to me. Although the way his sig is lately it could almost go either way. There are MANY forgeries trolling eBay. I would go through Bett's Books or places like Camelot, Very Fine Books, etc to be on the safe side with reputable book dealers. Obviously not all dealers on eBay are fake. I've seen some good deals for authentic sigs but personally, I stay away from it when it comes to flatsigned books.