Dune

Overview:

• Title: Dune
• Author: Frank Herbert
• Year: 1987
• Publisher: The Easton Press
• Pages: xxviii+517+[16]
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: Dune
• Notes:
  • "MEMORIAL EDITION" is stated on the title page above the title and author credit.
  • "COLLECTOR'S EDITION" (over) "Bound in Genuine Leather" stated on the title page.
  • "The special contents of this edition are copyright © 1987 by The Easton Press..." stated on the copyright page. No stated date of publication.
  • This is a limited edition of an unknown number of copies and was available by subscription only.
  • One of The Masterpieces of Science Fiction series, indicated by the logo printed on the endpapers.
  • No ISBN, no printed price, and no dustjacket as issued.
  • The uncredited illustrative cover design includes the title and author credit, unusual for this series. The illustration (without text) is repeated on the back cover.
  • Pages are gilt-edged and there is a gold satin bookmark bound into the book.
  • Unlike other books in the series, there is no frontispiece.
  • "Collector's Notes" (uncredited) are on a double-sided laid-in sheet.
  • This edition reprints 8 full-color plates and 6 full-page B&W illustrations by John Schoenherr that were first published in The Illustrated Dune (Berkley Windhover tp, 1978)
  • The last two pages (unnumbered) are a double-page spread of the map drawn by Dorothy de Fontaine. This may be a reprint from an earlier trade edition.
  • The unnumbered pages shown in the page count field account for the 14 illustrations and 2 page map.
  • Locus1 gives the date as September 1987, but their information is less than reliable when it comes to Easton Press publication dates.
  • For many years, this edition was priced at $5.00 as an incentive to subscribe to the series. Normal cost would have been approximately $40.00