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  Stephen King "The Stand" dj/HC, 1st Edition/1st Printing NF/NF Collector Grade
 
 


Our Price: $375.00

Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 1978
Binding: dj/HC
Signed: Not Signed
Edition: 1st Edition/1st Printing


Availability: In Stock Ships Within 24 Hours
Product Code: SK600


  
Description
 
A very original hardcover collectible book from 1978. An excellent original copy for your Stephen King library.

This is a 1st edition, 1st printing, with all the indications to qualify it as such.

Stephen King, "The Stand" dj/HC Doubleday 1978, First Edition, First Printing. “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”. Protected in brand new Mylar clear covering. All original - vintage King.

Condition
A wonderful clean copy in NF/NF condition. Clean & straight boards. No markings, writings, or stampings. No attached bookplates or signs of any removed. Lettering graphics on spine un-faded. Dust-jacket free of tears, creases, etc. Dust-jacket has several minor scratches as shown. Overall, a well-cared for book, protected from any potential damage. This book stands out as having had exemplary care. Square and tight spine as shown. Very likely an unread book. Excellent original example. Collector's grade hardcover book. Very mild tanning to dust-jacket with minor edge-wear. Dust-jacket protected in brand new Mylar sleeve. Price un-clipped.

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.

All photos of actual book.
 
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