Der Wüstenplanet

Overview:

• Title: Der Wüstenplanet
• Author: Frank Herbert
• Year: 1978
• ISBN-10: 345330523X
• Publisher: Heyne
• Price: DM 9.80
• Pages: 699+[2]
• Binding: Paperback
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: Der Wüstenplanet
• Notes:
  • New edition, stated as unabridged; it is the first German edition to use Schoenherr's interior illustrations ("Ungekürzte illustrierte Neuausgabe" is stated on the title page).
  • Translated by Ronald M. Hahn.
  • The copyright is assigned for the year 1965 to the author.
  • The copyright of the German translation is assigned for the year 1978 to the publisher.
  • Editor: Wolfgang Jeschke.
  • Apparent first printing.
  • "Printed in Germany 1978" is stated on the copyright page.
  • Month of publication from Science Fiction Times #s 144 & 145.
  • The table of contents appears on p. 5; a dedication is printed on p. 7.
  • The appendices end on the unnumbered page 699; the map takes pp. [700] & [701].
  • The book contains many black & white as well as four coloured illustrations by John Schoenherr; the coloured ones are reproduced on [16] unnumbered pages, divided into four groups (the respective first and fourth pages of each group are blank; these color artworks each span over two pages).
  • Schoenherr's black & white illustrations are supposed to have been taken from "The Illustrated Dune" (this is not stated), the coloured ones are from "Frank Herbert's Dune Calendar 1978".
  • The cover and the interior artworks are credited on the copyright page; the map is also signed by Ringer.
  • The cover design is credited to Atelier Heinrichs.