"Desperation" by Stephen King, published by Viking, New York, 1996. First Edition, First printing with full number line on the copyright page.

Dust jacket with unclipped price on the front flap [a little edge wear]; hard boards [bumped bottom corners], original beige cloth spine, maroon lettering on spine, "SK" is embossed on the front board; 6.1/2" x 9.1/2"; red endpapers [the front endpaper is slightly darkened at the hinge [see photo]; 690 pages, very good condition.

"Desperation" is a story about several people who, while traveling along the desolated Highway 50 in Nevada, get abducted by Collie Entragian, the deputy of the fictional mining town of Desperation. Entragian uses various pretexts for the abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to "rescuing" a family from a nonexistent gunman. It becomes clear to the captives that Entragian has been possessed by an evil being named Tak, who has control over the surrounding desert wildlife and must change hosts to keep itself alive. They begin to fight for their freedom, sanity and lives before realizing that if they are ever to escape Desperation, they must trap Tak in the place from which he came.

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