Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by virus and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published. 'THE STAND is a masterpiece' (Guardian). Set in a virus-decimated US, King's thrilling American fantasy epic, is a Classic. First come the days of the virus. Then come the dreams. Dark dreams that warn of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel ...
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Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by virus and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published. 'THE STAND is a masterpiece' (Guardian). Set in a virus-decimated US, King's thrilling American fantasy epic, is a Classic. First come the days of the virus. Then come the dreams. Dark dreams that warn of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms. When a man crashes his car into a petrol station, he brings with him the foul corpses of his wife and daughter. He dies and it doesn't take long for the virus which killed him to spread across America and the world.
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Add this copy of The Stand: the Complete and Uncut Edition to cart. $52.99, very good condition, Sold by The Book Scouts rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hamilton, ON, CANADA, published 1990 by Doubleday.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Size: 6x2x9; We're happy to combine shipping to save you some money. We're also always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask! The Complete and Uncut Edition. Jacket is in Very Good + condition. Spine area of jacket has a small 1/4 inch tear at top & one at bottom. Minor wear to corners of jacket. Jacket has a few wrinkles in laminate. Jacket is NOT price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. No remainder mark.
Add this copy of The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition to cart. $59.95, like new condition, Sold by The Warm Springs Book Company rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fremont, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Doubleday Books.
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Berni Wrightson. Fine in very good dust jacket. A fine copy in a very good mylar protected DJ. Stated 1st Trade edition followed by 'BVG with no additional printings listed. DJ is the one for the original edition of the book and has some general wear, light rubbing and small closed tears to the top back panel edge and the bottom back spine edge. Previous owner's gift inscription on the front endpaper. Tiny trace of corner creasing to the page tip edges ~ from pages 579-592. Overall, a very solid copy of a large book prone to wear and tear. Illustrated. Cover does not match stock copy photo. A larger book requiring additional postage for international and priority orders. 8vo; ~ xxx + 1152 pages.
Add this copy of The Stand: the Complete and Uncut Edition to cart. $60.00, good condition, Sold by Earl The Pearls rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Edmond, OK, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Doubleday.
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Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Thick Octavo. 1, 153pp. Black boards, embossed red lettering and vignette, bright gilt lettering on the spine. Light wear to the bottom spine corners, otherwise an unmarked, near fine copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has creasing on the spine ends, light wear to the extremities. Old price sticker on front jacket flap. States First trade Edition. On the jacket states "For The First Time Complete & Uncut." First published in 1978, the plot centers on a pandemic of a weaponized strain of influenza that kills almost the entire world population. The few survivors, united in groups, establish a new social system and engage in confrontation with each other.
Add this copy of The Stand to cart. $73.67, like new condition, Sold by Jon A Sewell rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rugby, UNITED KINGDOM (+44), UNITED KINGDOM, published 1990 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. 824 p. Audience: General/trade. First uncut edition UK hardback, 1990 Hodder & Stoughton. The book is in fine condition, the dustjacket is in fine condition. Not price clipped.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. NAP Stated. First Trade Edition. BVG. Binding tight and square. Remnants of name label on ffep. Pages clean and free of writing or marks.
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Good. First Edition. first edition book, does not include a dust jacket, light amount of wear along the edges of the cover of the book, light fading on the spine of the book, foxing on the edges of the book Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
I'm not Stephen King's biggest fan, but I've always had a weakness for THE STAND. One thing I've always appreciated about Stephen King is his liberal doses of gallows humor -- and that is very much in evidence here (particularly in the early chapters as a plague is passed from one unsuspecting victim to the next).
I first read THE STAND during the summer of either 1979 or 1980. I recently decided to reread it and dutifully bought the "uncut" version for my Kindle. Unfortunately King didn't just put back pages from his original manuscript, he also updated the action and references. I found this very distracting, so I immediately came to Alibris to purchase a copy of the original version of the novel... which I think is much better.
whitey
Jul 30, 2010
i have really enjoy the book the stand I feel it is one of the b est books that he had written also I would reconned it to anyone. the book actually give more stuff than the movie. It keep you on your seat wondering what going to happen next. thanks for getting it for me kathy cox.
nathaniel
Apr 16, 2009
stand
another great book....also series on tv....will add to collection for birthday gift.
DavidM
May 11, 2007
Good Read for summer
This is a long and detailed tail in the King tradition. You must be a dedicated reader in order to start this one. But it's worth it.
DrBones
Apr 6, 2007
Possibly the greatest novel?
Well in my humble opinion it is the greatest piece of fiction I have read. The depth that you get to go into the lives and mins of each one of these characters is staggering. What a more over-played out theme (the struggle of good verses evil) to take onand truely do something original with. I can't say enough about the style this book was written in. The attention to detail the history of each player laid out so that the reader can form whole opinions based the merit or character flaws of every piece on the chess board. no stone left unturned so that when the books apocalyptic theme starts to develope you are actually in a position to feel like you can pass judgement on who should triumph or fal.
It is often hard for me to find characters in mass market novels that really scare me, and make my skin crawl. The killer who takes on the identity of Vincent Mungo in the Shane Stevens novel "By Reason of Insanity", or the pretyy rich boy nut job in Bret Easton Elliss' "American psycho" both hit the mark. But evil pound for evil pound, the "waking dude" in "The Stand" scared the crud out of me. With an understated grace almost he draws people in to a living nightmare that surrounds him and dictates his every move and thought.
And on the good side of the Rocky Mountains,lovable heroes by the truck load. a team of misfits that despite being as mixed up and challenged as the scumbags out to get them, mange to succeed in winning the readers hearts and leave them cheering.
Just great entertainment for hours and hours. I've reread it 6 times since my first go around the lonely highways of Stephen Kings imagination.
