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New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1990]. First printing of the enlarged edition. A fine copy in a satin-lined black wooden box with the unprinted tissue dust jacket. (31857). Octavo, full leather. Limited to 1302 copies of which this is one of 1250 numbered copies signed by King and artist Berni Wrightson. This is copy #562. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-601. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-175. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1801-06. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-135].

A post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel that outlines the total breakdown of society after the accidental release of a strain of influenza that had been modified for biological warfare causes an apocalyptic pandemic, which kills off the majority of the world's human population.

For 'The Stand', a true first edition can be identified by the T39 code in the gutter on page 823.