The Stand (The Complete Uncut Edition)

New York: Doubleday / Sterling Publishing, 2020. Reissue. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 9x6x2. Wrightson, Bernie. 2nd printing of 2020 reissue of uncut edition, in decorative orange faux leather. Rear board scuffed and smudged with some loss from crow illustration, bottom fore edge corner lightly bruised. xix, 1152 pp. Orange and yellow bonded leather, black titles, all edges gilt, orange ribbon marker bound in, decorated endpapers. Illustrations by Bernie Wrightson. A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world's population within (truncated) a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge - Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious "Dark Man," who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them - and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity. (Inventory #: 2348945)