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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. First edition, first printing of The Stand by Stephen King, in the publisher's first state dust jacket.. Octavo, 823pp. Black cloth spine, yellow boards, title in gold over cloth. Stated "first edition" on copyright page, with "T39" marker on page 823. Light rubbing to spine tips, bright gilt on spine. Light warping of front pastedown, as is common with this book, solid text block, a near fine example. Ownership mark on front free endpaper. Housed in custom box. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $12.95 on front flap, wear from handling at tips of spine, light shelf wear to both covers, free of restoration, bright illustrations, an attractive example.

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.