Dune Messiah
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Overview:
- Title: Dune Messiah
- Author: Frank Herbert
- Year: 1976
- Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons / SFBC
- Price: $2.49
- Pages: 221
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Dune Messiah
- Notes:
- "Book Club Edition" printed at the bottom of the front flap of the dustjacket indicates a printing by Doubleday for its various book clubs.
- The date of its publication as an alternate selection of the Science Fiction Book Club is unknown. Although the title was first published by Putnam in 1970, it didn't become a SFBC selection until its sequel Children of Dune became the SFBC main selection for November 1976. Its ID number and gutter code would indicate a publication date of December 1976, but it doesn't appear in any SFBC announcement flyer between November 1976 to January 1977. It may have been announced on a separate flyer accompanying the main catalog.
- No printed price. Source for this record's price is unknown, but it is consistent with prices for SFBC printings at this time.
- "3177" on the back flap of the dustjacket, by at least the Dec. '81 printing the number had moved to the back cover.
- First SFBC printing has gutter code "G46" on page [219].
- Known reprint codes: "H10" [verified] (March 1977); "H17" [verified] (Apr 1977); "I 17" [verified] (April 1978); "K20" (May 1980); "L17" (April 1981); "L50" [verified] (December 1981); "M28" [verified] (July 1982); "O28" [verified] (July 1984)
- "Jacket painting by Jack Gaughan" on the back flap, no visible signature/initials on the jacket
- Second printing has bright red boards with black lettering; fourth printing has orange boards with black lettering; both have the title printed on the front board. By the Dec. '81 printing the boards were still orange but the title does not appear on the front board.