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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Bruce Pennington (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear to top and bottom of fab illustrated jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, spine very slightly faded, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 349pp. More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times, the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species. But to achieve his final victory, Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall. The fourth volume in Frank Herbert's classic Dune Saga. A scarce book in this first impression.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 480 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter gold cloth with gilt lettering to spine over beige boards in original pictorial jacket. Jacket design by Abe Echevarria. Inscribed by the author. First edition. Heretics of Dune is the 5th book in the series. For the first printing ISBN 0-399-12898-0 which is printed on the copyright page and on the back of the DJ. It's also on the front DJ on the flap along with a $16.95 price and the number 8404 on the bottom and the 1984 copyright year. Heretics of Dune is a 1984 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the fifth in his Dune series of six novels. It was ranked as the No. 13 hardcover fiction best seller of 1984 by The New York Times. Fifteen hundred years have passed since the 3,500-year reign of the God Emperor Leto II Atreides ended with his assassination; humanity is firmly on the Golden Path, Leto's plan to save humanity from destruction. By crushing the aspirations of humans for over three thousand years, Leto caused the Scattering, an explosion of humanity into the rest of the universe upon his death. Now, some of those who went out into the universe are coming back, bent on conquest. Only the Bene Gesserit perceive the Golden Path and are therefore faced with a choice: keep to their traditional role of hidden manipulators who quietly ease tensions and guide human progress while struggling for their own survival, or embrace the Golden Path and push humanity onward into a new future where humans are free from the threat of extinction. Condition: Signed on the title page by Frank Herbert. Jacket with general light wear else very good in like jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 411 pages. Octavo (9 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over grey boards in original pictorial jacket. The jacket is designed by Brad Holland. Inscribed by the author. First edition. God Emperor of Dune is the fourth book in the Dune series which starts the second trilogy. This is a first edition, first printing which is a hardcover with a black spine and dark gray boards. On the jacket price $12.95, the number 8105 on the bottom left and "SBN 399-12593-0" on the bottom right of the front flap. On the copyright page, ISBN 0-399-12593-0, and the 1981 copyright year with no other printings. Inscribed by Frank Herber on the title with his name marked through by him. In God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert analyzes the cyclical patterns of human society, as well as humanity's evolutionary drives. Using his ancestral memories, Leto II has knowledge of the entirety of human history and is able to recall the effects and patterns of tyrannical institutions, from the Babylonian empire through the Jesuits on ancient Earth, and thus builds an empire existing as a complete nexus encompassing all these methods. This galactic empire differs from the historical tyrants in that it is deliberately designed to end in destruction, and is only instituted in the first place as part of a plan to rescue humanity from an absolute destruction which Leto II has foreseen through his oracular visions. Leto II personally explores the emergent effects of civilization, noting that most hierarchical structures are remnants of evolutionary urges toward safety. Thus, by forming a perfectly safe and stable empire, Leto II delivers a message to be felt throughout history. Condition:: Signed and inscribed "For Jodi" on the title page by Frank Herbert. Back head corners gently bumped, a few spots to rear endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, a bit of soiling to edges. Jacket light edge wear with a few minuscule chips or tears, some sunning to spine else very good in a better than very good jacket. Inscribed by Author(s).