LARGE SIZE HARD COVER-FIRST EDITION= NO DUST JACKET - Cover Blue with Gold embossing--WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-  however book is in excellent condition...Connections to other King works ? Desperation is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, The Regulators, itself published under King's Richard Bachman pseudonym