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==Publication history== ''The Green Mile'' was first published in six paperback volumes. The first, subtitled ''The Two Dead Girls'' was published on March 28, 1996, with new volumes following monthly until the final volume, ''Coffey on the Mile'', was released on August 29, 1996. The novel was republished as a single paperback volume on May 5, 1997. On October 3, 2000, the book was published in its first hardcover edition ({{ISBN|978-0743210898}}). In 2007, [[Subterranean Press]] released a 10th anniversary edition of the novel in three different versions, each mimicking the original six-volume release: the Gift Edition, limited to 2,000 copies, containing six unsigned hardcover volumes of each separate part, housed in a slipcase; the Limited Edition, limited to 148 numbered copies, and signed by Stephen King, housed in a slipcase; and the Lettered Edition, limited to 52 lettered copies, and signed by Stephen King, housed in a traycase. Every edition contained new illustrations by Mark Geyer, the novel's original illustrator. Each version had its own design, and cost $150, $900, and $2,500, respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/the_green_mile |title=The Green Mile by Stephen King |publisher=Subterranean Press}}</ref> There were other versions published as well, including a "pocketbook" sized hardcover by Paw Prints ({{ISBN|9781439182789}}).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHDPyltF1J4C |title=The Green Mile by Stephen King |date=11 May 2010 |publisher=Subterranean Press|isbn=9781439182789}}</ref> King was first made aware of the possibility to publish stories in shorter installments by Ralph Vicinanza, who, after a conversation with British publisher [[Malcolm Edwards]], learned that [[Charles Dickens]] had often published his stories in shorter installments by either folding them into magazines, or by publishing the installments on their own as a [[chapbook]]. After a lengthy struggle to write the novel, Vicinaza pitched the idea of writing the book "the same way it would be read - in installments" to King the year before the initial release of the first installment. The idea of serialized publication appealed to King on multiple levels; from the writer's responsibility to finish the story once the first installment is published, to the readers' inability to skip to the end of the story and ruin the suspense.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHDPyltF1J4C |title=The Green Mile by Stephen King |date=11 May 2010 |publisher=Subterranean Press|isbn=9781439182789}}</ref> In the introduction to the first collected edition of the story, King also explains the financial aspect of initially publishing the book in six installments: {{Blockquote|quote= The part-by-part publication was a sore point with me and some readers as well, because the price was very high for a paperback; about nineteen dollars for all six installments (considerably less if bought at a discount store). For that reason a boxed set never seems like the ideal solution. This volume, a trade paperback available at a more sane price, seemed to be the ideal solution. |source=Stephen King, ''Bangor, Maine. February 6, 1997''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHDPyltF1J4C |title=The Green Mile by Stephen King |date=11 May 2010 |publisher=Subterranean Press|isbn=9781439182789}}</ref>}} ===Volume list=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background: #93B8C4;"|Title !! style="background: #93B8C4;"|Date !! style="background: #93B8C4;"|Length !! style="background: #93B8C4;"|ISBN {{Book list | title = ''The Two Dead Girls'' | publish_date = March 28, 1996 | aux1 = 92 pp | isbn = 978-0451190499 | line_color = novel }} {{Book list | title = ''The Mouse on the Mile'' | publish_date = April 25, 1996 | aux1 = 96 pp | isbn = 978-0451190529 | line_color = novel }} {{Book list | title = ''Coffey's Hands'' | publish_date = May 30, 1996 | aux1 = 96 pp | isbn = 978-0451190543 | line_color = novel }} {{Book list | title = ''The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix'' | publish_date = June 27, 1996 | aux1 = 96 pp | isbn = 978-0451190550 | line_color = novel }} {{Book list | title = ''Night Journey'' | publish_date = July 25, 1996 | aux1 = 96 pp | isbn = 978-0451190567 | line_color = novel }} {{Book list | title = ''Coffey on the Mile'' | publish_date = August 29, 1996 | aux1 = 144 pp | isbn = 978-0451190574 | line_color = novel }} |}
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