“THE PLACE WHERE YOU MADE YOUR STAND NEVER MATTERED. ONLY THAT YOU WERE THERE… AND STILL ON YOUR FEET": LIMITED ILLUSTRATED EDITION
KING, Stephen. The Stand. Baltimore: Cemetery Dance, 2024 [i.e., 2025]. Thick octavo, original black leatherette, original matching slipcase. $750.
Deluxe slipcased gift edition of King's Hugo-nominated epic tale of apocalyptic terror, illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne, Ned Dameron and François Vaillancourt, one of 4000 copies printed.
"The book that took me the longest to write was The Stand. This is also the one my longtime readers still seem to like the best… I was writing this story near the end of the so-called Energy Crisis in the 1970s, and I had an absolutely marvelous time envisioning a world that went smash during the course of one horrified, infected summer… Rarely have I seen so clearly with the eye of my imagination… [A trust in] violence as a solution is woven through human nature like a damning red thread. That became the theme… There is no moral to The Stand, no 'We'd better learn or we'll probably destroy the whole damned planet next time'—but if the theme stands out clearly enough, those discussing it may offer their own morals and conclusions. Nothing wrong with that; such discussions are one of the great pleasures of the reading life" (King, On Writing, 201-6).
Not only a "very superior example of its genre" (Clute & Nicholls, 666),
The Stand "represents King's most ambitiously imaginative novel and the most fulfilling exploration of a predominant theme in his work: the behavior of groups functioning under the pressure of extraordinary situations" (
Fantasy and Horror 6-206).
The Stand was originally published in 1978. King released a revised, "complete and uncut" edition in 1990, adding over 400 pages to make it his longest single book; the novel became a bestseller for a second time, selling 4.5 million copies. This Cemetery Dance limited edition of the enhanced text features all-new artwork. See
Anatomy of Wonder II-601 and Brooks A41.
First three leaves with faint creasing, otherwise a fine copy.