The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition ("Coffin Edition")
New York: Doubleday, 1990.
First edition thus, limited issue. #790 of 1,250 numbered and 52 lettered copies signed on the limitation page by author and illustrator. xxiii, [6], 1237, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's padded faux leather elaborately stamped in red and gilt, all edges gilt, red moire endpapers, red ribbon bookmark. Near Fine with light foxing to to textblock edges and prelims; binding sound, bookmark crisp. In original glassine jacket and "coffin" case, black-painted wood lined with red satin, black label to lid. Light wear to box, white paint flecks to underside.
Twelve years after the first appearance of the apocalyptic novel The Stand, Stephen King published a new version with more than 500 pages of deleted material. This very special limited edition, designed to resemble a bible and nicknamed the "coffin edition" due to its lined case, was illustrated by Bernie Wrightson and signed by Wrightson and King.
Price: $7,500