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First edition, first printing of King's apocalyptic horror novel, with the T39 gutter code and the first state dust jacket priced at $12.95. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1978. Publisher's original ocher paper boards, black cloth spine lettered in gilt; pp. (xii), 823. A very good copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight and sturdy with a light concavity to spine, minor shelfwear to boards. Internally clean with no markings. Jacket shows light shelfwear and and rubbing with a closed tear and pinhole near spine heel, neatly reinforced with archival tape to verso. A presentable copy, protected in archival mylar.

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.