The Stand by Stephen King (Original Cut) [FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION] 1980 • Signet

The Stand by Stephen King (Original Cut)

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [1980] SIGNET BOOKS

41st printing.   Original issuing of The Stand.  Contains the original now long out of print version of the novel before King updated and vastly expanded the novel in 1990.  

Decent reading copy with visible creasing to cover.   Binding is tight; Pages are clean and read nicely with the exception of *a dozen or so pages with nicked margins in the 70's. 

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen.