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The Stand Stephen King
Science Fiction
Horror
Fantasy
USD$4,564

Description

First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Sheryl - with good wishes, Stephen King, 9/30/87", beneath the book label of Sheryl Weilgosh, who conducted interviews for Castle Rock: The Stephen King Newsletter. Overseen by King's sister-in-law Stephanie Leonard, the newsletter was the pre-eminent discussion group for Stephen King fans in the late 1980s. Weilgosh's interviews for Castle Rock included conversations with contemporaries of King, such as the horror writers Clive Barker, John Farris, and Dean Koontz. Weilgosh also wrote an article locating the gazebo and other shots used in the 1983 film adaptation of King's The Dead Zone (1979). The newsletter ran from January 1985 to December 1989 and notably featured the first printing of King's Dolan's Cadillac (1985). King's dark fantasy novel The Stand marks the first appearance of the recurring antagonist Randall Flagg. It was adapted into the television miniseries of 1994 and 2020 and into a Marvel Comics series from 2008 to 2012. This copy has the "T39" code printed in the gutter of the final page, as required for the first printing. Loosely inserted is a postcard from the fantasy bookshop The Overlook Connection reproducing a 1990 photograph of King. Octavo. Original black quarter cloth, spine lettered in gilt, buff paper-covered sides, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Small bumps to edges; jacket unclipped, a little rubbed and creased, small tears to edges, tape reinforcement on verso, colours bright: a very good copy in like jacket. .

About The Stand

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.