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

The Stand by Stephen King 

FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK [1980] SIGNET BOOKS

15th 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.  

Solid reading copy with visible wear / creasing to cover and spine.  *Mild stain on text block visible on some page margins [see photos] - otherwise pages are clean and read nicely.

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.