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New York: Doubleday and Company, 1990. First edition thus . Hardcover. Fine. Number 315 of 1,250 copies of the limited issue signed on a special limitation page by King and the illustrator Bernie Wrightson . Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4, 4-233. "The sweep of the novel is impressive." Barron, Horror Literature, *4-175. Bound in full black leather with lettering in red and design in gilt. Red mauve endpapers. All edges in gilt. A fine, as new copy, housed within the publisher's red silk lined black wood box.

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.