Desperation by Stephen King [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1996 • Viking

Desperation by Stephen King FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1996] VIKING  *True 1st in beautiful condition!  Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Dust jacket is excellent with only minor shelf wear.  Now housed in a new archival quality brodart jacket protector.  Book looks and reads like new.  Clean, tight, and attractive.  Nevada is mostly a long stretch of desert you cross on the way to somewhere else. And with someone else, if you're lucky...because it's a scary place. Headed down Route 50 in the brutal summer heat are people who are never going to reach their destinations. Like the Jacksons, a professor and his wife going home to New York City; the Carvers, a Wentworth, Ohio, family bound for a vacation at Lake Tahoe; and aging literary lion Johnny Marinville, inventing a gonzo image for himself astride a 700-pound Harley.A dead cat nailed to a road sign heralds the little mining town of Desperation, a town that seems withered in the shade of a man-made mountain k