Dune

Overview:

  • Title: Dune
  • Author: Frank Herbert
  • Year: 1965
  • ISBN-10:
  • Publisher: Chilton
  • Price: $5.95
  • Pages: xxvi+412+[1]
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Dune
  • Notes:
    • "Copyright page of the first printing of the first edition reads Copyright © 1965 by Frank Herbert/First Edition/All Rights Reserved/Published in Philadelphia by Chilton Company and simultaneously/in Toronto, Canada, by Ambassador Books, Ltd./Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 65-22547/Manufactured in the United States of America." - L.W. Currey
    • There are later printings that retain the first edition statement but have a number line with an ISBN of 0-8019-5077-5.
    • Blue cloth
    • Tuck's entry gives a catalog # 5077. That number is printed on spine of the jacket in black ink, just above the script "Chilton".
    • $5.95 price on front flap of jacket. "jacket art / john Schoenherr" on back flap. On bottom of back flap of first edition dust jacket, publisher's address is 4 lines: "CHILTON BOOKS / A DIVISION OF CHILTON COMPANY / Publishers / Philadelphia and New York".
    • There is a short biography of Frank Herbert on an un-numbered page following page 412. It notes Herbert "lives now in Fairfax, California".