| [First Edition] [First Printing] Collector's Grade and Original.
A beautiful original hardcover Collector's Grade book worthy of your fine Stephen King library. All original and authentic. Copyright 1978. This item arrives with the white matching folding case (pictured below) designed to fit this book.
Very few of these have survived in this condition, especially for a fragile book such as this one. This collector's grade First Printing stands out as having had exemplary care.
First edition, First printing, with all the indications to qualify it as such. Stephen King, "The Stand" dj/HC Doubleday 1978. New Mylar plastic sleeve to protect the dust-jacket. Vintage King. Exceptional item for the avid collector. Scarce.
All First Printing issue point:
* “First Edition” as stated on copyright page.
* T39 on pg. 823 as required .
* Not price clipped, with $12.95 Price on inside of DJ still visible.
* NOT a Book Club Edition.
* Bound in black cloth over tan boards.
* Book Size: 6.25” x 9.5”
Condition
Fine/Near Fine. Fine hardcover book. Clean & straight boards. No markings, writings, or stampings. No attached bookplates or signs of any removed. Lettering graphics on spine not faded. A wonderful bright clean copy. Square and tight spine. Most likely unread. Overall, a well-cared for collector's grade book, protected from any potential damage. This collector's grade edition stands out as having had exemplary care.
Dust-jacket condition: Near Fine. A wonderful clean and original dust-jacket, now protected in clear Mylar sleeve. Not price clipped. Graphics and lettering clear and not faded. Small scratch to front cover. Minuscule edge wear in a couple of spots only. One of the better dust jackets we have seen, especially for this rare and fragile hard cover book.
Photos of the actual book you will receive: 
About The Stand
In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. |
