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. Soon to be a television series. '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 ...
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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. Soon to be a television series. '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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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0385199570. New edition, 9th printing, trade edition, of The Stand, features a considerable amount of previously unpublished material which was originally cut from the first edition of the book. This issue of The Stand now comes much closer to the author's original intention. Large book in very good+ condition, free of former owner writing or bookplates. Jacket looks nice with minor shelf rub. Not price clipped. Jacket will arrive in a fresh mylar cover. * (THIS BOOK IS IN OUR POSSESSION. WE SHIP MOST BOOKS SIX DAYS A WEEK AND WILL CONFIRM WITH TRACKING NUMBER FOR DOMESTIC ORDERS OR CUSTOMS NUMBER FOR NON DOMESTIC) *; 8vo; 1152 pages.
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Very Good. Size: 8x5x2; First edition, 2nd printing. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. T45 at gutter of last page. Boards are mustard with gold lettering on a black cloth spine. Only books mentioned on end page are The Stand, Carrie, The Shining, Salem's Lot, and Night Shift. "Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark." "No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just...come out the other side. Or you don't."
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 1200 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Doubleday, USA, 1978. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Signed. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. SIGNED First Edition USA hardcover book club edition in ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET! Hand signed and inscribed "To Kevin, Best, Stephen King ". This is The Stand. This book was obtained via the Skemer system (Stephen King EMailER). The Stand is one of Stephen King's classic early novels and remains one of the most desired and valuable from the famous author! Fantastic similarities to the true USA First printing. Despite being a book club edition it is hard to tell on first looking! Identical size, jacket, graphics etc. The condition on this book and jacket are outstanding. The jacket is the best I have ever seen with hardly any wear. The book is square with very clean pages. A very rare personal hand signed STEPHEN KING book as shown. A GREAT ORIGINAL STEPHEN KING AUTOGRAPH. Genuine STEPHEN KING HAND SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKS ARE HARD TO COME ACROSS. Here is stunning original hand signed STEPHEN KING. RAREANDSIGNED. Signed by Author.
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Very Good. 8.5 x 5.5", cloth backed boards, 823pp, covers lightly rubbed, spine ends lightly bumped, covers with old tape marks on top and bottom edges, some toning to foredge of textblock, small light staining to bottom of gutter in last several pp, ink name of former owner on front fly, in a worn, spotted and soiled dustjacket with some light staining to bottom of spine. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE (with "T39" on last page).
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Like New. Condition: Fine; Dust Jacket Condition: This is the Deluxe First Edition of The Stand: Complete and Uncut Edition, which has been signed by Stephen King and the Illustrator Bernie Wrightson. Limited to 1, 250 numbered copies, this is copy #990. Book is bound in beautiful black leather with red and gilt decoration and printing on cover and spine. Signatures are on the Limitation page. Red silk moire endpapers with a silk bookmark sewn in. Gilt page edges. Book is housed in a black wooden box with a metal plate printed with gold lettering on the front. Box lined with padded red cloth. Book in wonderful Fine condition. The thin glassine jacket has some light edgewear. The wooden box shows some rubbing and a couple light scratches to the back and a small scuff on metal plate. A rare and elusive Stephen King edition. Please contact us for photos.
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"I love to burn things up, " King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess....The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ...Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke." "There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book" (Fiona Webster). It was the basis for the 1994 American television miniseries. King also wrote the teleplay and had a minor role in the series. It was directed by Mick Garris and stars Gary Sinise, Miguel Ferrer, Rob Lowe, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo, Molly Ringwald, Corin Nemec, Adam Storke, Ray Walston, and Matt Frewer.
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.
