Heretics Dune by Herbert Frank, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited edition. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Numbered 856 of 1500 signed and specially bound first edition copies. Slipcase lightly scuffed, otherwise intact. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.75. signed by author.

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).

First edition, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original purple cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Issued without a dustwrapper. Housed in the original cloth slipcase. Frontispiece illustration by John Schoenherr. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with just a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are a clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the lightly rubbed, structurally sound slipcase. Issued on first publication in a limited edition of 1500 specially bound copies of which this example is numbered 620 and signed by Frank Herbert in black ink on the title page, as issued. The fifth and penultimate book in the author's multi-award-winning 'Dune' series. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in cloth and just about fine slipcase, with a tiny shadow from a price-sticker. One of 1500 numbered copies Signed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing, Signed Boldly Signed by Frank Herbert to the half title page. A Fine book in a Near fine dust jacket. As called for there is no date on the copyright page other than the 1984 date. The book is in fine condition with brown quarter cloth and yellow paper boards, and unfaded gilt titles to the spine. The book has clean boards with sharp corners, and no edgewear. A very solid tight copy in a tight and square binding. The end papers are clean with no inscriptions, no bookplates, and no bookstore stamps. The internal pages are crisp, clean, bright and flat with no writing, no inscriptions, no stains but slight faint foxing to the outer page block, no handling marks, no age toning, no bent pages, and no internal foxing. Boldly Signed by Frank Herbert to the half title page "Frank Herbert" without an inscription. Please see the many detailed images. The stunning original near fine condition dust jacket maintains the strong vibrant colors with a few tiny nicks to the top of the spine, and a bit of smudge to the "E" in Dune on the front panel, otherwise No edgewear, No rips, No chips, No stains, No rubbing, and No foxing. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has a stated price of $16.95. A clean handsome fine/near fine condition copy of this title with a fantastic signature. One of the important landmark SciFi/Fantasy titles as the fifth book in the Dune series. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark SciFi listings. Signed by Author(s).

First UK editions, first impressions, inscribed by the author beneath his name, struck through, on the title pages, "For Peter". The set consists of the first omnibus edition of the first three Dune novels, The Great Dune Trilogy, and the final three novels. Laid in is a flyer for a signing event at Forbidden Planet, London, on 4 July 1981. Dune, the opening novel in Herbert's (1920-1986) monumental saga, won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965, jointly won the Hugo Award the following year, and in 1987 topped Locus magazine's poll of all-time best novels. Herbert was explicit in his hopes that his writing would raise environmental awareness, and Dune can be considered the "first planetary ecology novel on a grand scale" (James & Mendlesohn, p. 183). After Herbert's death, the Dune saga was continued by his son, Brian Herbert, and the author Kevin J. Anderson. It was adapted for film in 1984 by David Lynch and in 2021 by Denis Villeneuve. Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, 2003. Four works, octavo. The Great Dune: Original red leatherette, spine lettered in gilt, map endpapers, top edge red. God Emperor: Original orange boards, spine lettered in gilt. Heretics: Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt. Chapter House: Original purplish-brown boards, spine lettered in gilt. All with dust jackets. Playing card and receipt loosely inserted. Edges and occasional contents lightly foxed, small mark to title page of The Great Dune; jackets not price-clipped, spines gently faded, occasional minor creasing to extremities: a near-fine set in like jackets.

First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (23.5cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-384pp. Signed by the author on the title page, beneath Herbert's crossed-out name. A fresh, Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced £8.95 net), showing some trivial surface wear and some mild crimping at crown and along the upper edge. A sharp copy of the fifth installment in Herbert's Dune series. Copies of the English edition are considerably less common signed than their American counterparts.