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Our Price: $80.00

Publisher: Book of the Month Club
Binding: Red Faux Leather

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Product Code: SKR155

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Stephen King Library (Mechanicsburg, PA), Doubleday [published date: 1978] Hardcover 823 pages 6" x 9" - Part of the Stephen King Library printed for members only with a limited print run -- bound in bright red faux leather with golden lettering on the spine and cover - ECRE parchment end papers - there is a facsimile signature of the author on the cover - archival quality paper was used to prevent premature aging - this edition is OUT OF PRINT and hard to find.

These red leather books were only available to people that signed up to the Stephen King Library many years ago. They were published by the Book of the Month Club and bound in faux leather with Stephen King's signature in gold on the front board. Now they have become collector's editions and are sought after by many King fans.

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Condition
Fine. Gold lettering on spine has not faded. No markings, writings, or stampings. No attached bookplates or signs of any removed. No torn or ripped pages. A wonderful bright clean copy. Tight binding without any separation. Clean & straight tan boards. Overall, the book exhibits excellent qualities and would make an wonderful addition to your Stephen King red leather library. Collector grade hardcover.

Additional Book Information

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.