The Stand
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. Very Good + / Good +. Item #48184
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. First Edition, stated, with "T39" gutter code to page 823. Thick octavo; price-clipped illustrated first state dust jacket; tan boards in black cloth with spine lettered in gilt; 823pp. Housed in a custom made slip case in black bonded leather with vinyl cutouts in red. Dust jacket shows rubbing, toning, creasing, scuffing, and a few chips and tears to spine; verso toned. Shelfwear to boards; binding sound; water-staining to bottom gutter edge of first pastedown and prelims with matching staining, though smaller, to rear pastedown. Interior clean. Slipcase lightly shelfworn, otherwise Fine. A Very Good copy in a Good or better dust jacket of King's oft-adapted and highly praised dark post-apocalyptic epic.
Price: $1,000.00