Hardcover first edition, first printing and first US edition. (Preceded by the UK edition published in Hodder & Stoughton.) Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. Some handling-related wear around the jacket edges, else fine copy in fine jacket. Handlling appears related to having been read once before. A clean, straight copy without price-clipping. A short story both sinister and heart-warming as only Stephen King can deliver. Particularly enduring for all us baseball fans. "Brutal, intensely suspenseful and aswarm with genuine emotion, the novel weaves backwoods terror, baseball, questions of faith and the travails of a heartbreakingly gutsy heroine into an exhilarating affirmation of the human spirit." - Publisher's Weekly. Award History: Publisher's Weekly Best of 1999 List.