First UK impression of the complete and uncut edition of The Stand by Stephen King, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1990

Medium format hardback in near fine condition

Some very minor wear and toning to extremities of dust jacket, now in a removable protective sleeve

Some very slight toning to extremities of pages

Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm

About

Unleashed by accident from a secure military facility, a rapidly mutating influenza strain decimates 99.44% of the human race. In the desolate aftermath of the plague, the remaining survivors must take their stand in an apocalyptic war between Good and Evil.

"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."