8vo. Original black cloth-backed tan boards (corners slightly bumped); unclipped dust jacket (light rubbing)

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with T36 gutter code on pg. 823 IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with $12.95 price and 35-line quote from the book on back cover. The Stand was written as an epic fantasy in the vein of The Lord of the Rings. King's first submitted draft was so long that Doubleday forced him to cut nearly 800 pages of text; this missing text was restored in the 1990 "Complete and Uncut" edition. It was later adapted into a 1994 miniseries of the same name directed by Mick Garris.