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The Stand a novel by the author of The Shining by Stephen King (preceded by Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining.) Hardcover First Edition - First Printing New York: Doubleday, 1978 823 pages. $12.95 cover price. Approximately 45,000 trade first printing copies were issued, uncommon for Stephen King books. NOTE: This copy IS a first printing, NOT a BCE, and NOT an X-lib copy. Does have gutter code "T39"; "39" is easy to see but the "T" is farther into the gutter. Priced to sell. Issue Points: Tan boards with black cloth spine in a dust jacket featuring artwork with a kind of Luke Skywalker-like warrior in white and wielding a sword dueling a reptilian creature of sorts in black wielding a scythe, representing Randall Flagg. Lettering of author and title in black on front, and author in red on spine. "First Edition" stated on the copyright page which indicates both a first edition and a first printing copy. $12.95 cover price on the front flap, and on the back flap, author picture…

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.