The Waste Lands

Overview:

  • Title: The Waste Lands
  • Author: Stephen King
  • Year: 1992
  • ISBN-10: 0452267404
  • Publisher: Plume / Penguin / BCE
  • Price: $15.00
  • Pages: 422
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Waste Lands
  • Notes:
    • apparent non-trade edition of some sort; appears identical to the January 1992 Brautigan-cover trade paperback, except:
      • In place of the printing statement and number line (between the publisher pedigree and the copyright) on the copyright page is blank space.
      • In place of the U.S. and Canada prices in the lower left corner of the back cover is a white rectangle containing "PRINTED IN U.S.A."
    • no publication date or number, except 1991 copyright; assuming this was printed in 1992 concurrent with, or after, the otherwise identical trade edition
    • artist credits on rear cover; front cover by Don Brautigan, rear cover by Phil Heffernan
    • catalog #Z6740 listed on rear cover
    • $15.00 only appears in the bar code
    • "Argument" on pp 1-4 is an introduction and recap, not part of the story
    • story ends on p. 420, followed by "Author's Note" on pp 421-422 dated March 5, 1991
    • color illustrations have been inserted every 30 or so pages; each is titled in a table of illustrations; there are other B/W illustrations as well
    • {{LCCN|91-32460}}