The Stand - Signed Limited Edition by King, Stephen
- Bookseller: Blue Sky Books
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: biblio192
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Fine
- Jacket condition: None as issued
- Quantity available: 1
- Illustrator: Bernie Wrightson
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0385413084
- ISBN 13: 9780385413084
- Publisher: Doubleday
- Place: NY
- Date published: 1990
Description
Doubleday 1990, Garden City, 1990. Hard Cover. First Signed limited edition. This is number 1246 of 1250 copies. SIGNED by Stephen King and Bernie Wrightson on the limitation page. In black wooden box with red satin lining. Engraved black title plate with gilt lettering affixed to box lid. Black leather boards bordered with gilt decoratons to both front and back. Spine is rivved with title in gilt and red decorations. Red textured satin endpapers. Book in glassine wrapper. Book and box is in Fine condition.
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spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
glassine wrapper : a transparent or translucent paper covering often used as a protective covering outside of the dust jacket.
Book summary
This popular post-apocalyptic novel by master of horror Stephen King inspired a 1994 TV miniseries. A devastating flu escapes from its containment in a military biowarfare lab, killing most of the population of the United States, and by implication, the world. Those who remain, immune to the disease, receive dreams that lead them to align themselves either with the forces of good, led by a saintly, ancient woman named Mother Abigail; or the forces of evil, led by the enigmatic, demonic Randall/Richard Flagg, the Dark Man whose debut in this book was followed by appearances in several of Stephen King's later novels. Each group of people struggles to reclaim the remnants of civilization…and to prepare for the inevitable confrontation between the two sides.
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