The Great Dune Trilogy : Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune

Herbert, Frank

ISBN 10: 0575025867 / ISBN 13: 9780575025868

Published by Book Club Associates, 1979

About this Item

VGC. Book Club Associates in arrangement with Victor Gllancz, 1979. First Book Club edition of this omnibus edition. Includes: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune. Red hardback (gilt lettering to the spine, small nick and ink mark on the edges of the cover) with Dj (a couple of small creases on the edges of the Dj cover) both in VGC. Illustrated with a colour map inside the front and back cover. Nice and clean pages with a couple of small marks and ink marks on the outer edges. The book is in VGC for its age with light shelf wear on the Dj cover (small ink marks inside the edges of the Dj cover). 911pp including Appendices I to IV, terminology of the Imperium, cartographic notes for map endpapers. Heavy book (approx. 1.3 Kg).

Seller Inventory # 11729

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Great Dune Trilogy : Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune
• Publisher: Book Club Associates
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575025867
• ISBN 13: 9780575025868
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Herbert's evocative, epic tales are set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions. Arrakis is the source of spice, a mind enhancing drug which makes interstellar travel possible; it is the most valuable substance in the galaxy. When Duke Atreides and his family take up court there, they fall into a trap set by the Duke's bitter rival, Baron Harkonnen. The Duke is poisoned, but his wife and her son Paul escape to the vast and arid deserts of Arrakis, which have given the planet its nickname of Dune. Paul and his mother join the Fremen, the Arrakis natives, ho have learnt to live in this harsh and complex ecosystem. But learning to survive is not enough - Paul's destiny was mapped out long ago and his mother is committed to seeing it fulfilled.

About the Author

Frank Herbert (1920-86) was born in Tacoma, Washington and worked as a reporter and later editor of a number of West Coast newspapers before becoming a full-time writer. His first sf story was published in 1952 but he achieved fame more than ten years later with the publication in Analog of ?Dune World? and ?The Prophet of Dune?, amalgamated into the Hugo and Nebula-winning novel DUNE in 1965.