DUNE by Herbert Frank - 1984

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1984. First Putnam edition. With the two page map of Arrakis. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth over blue boards, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original dustjacket. 517 pp. A fine copy indeed, very bright, the jacket with virtually no wear and only trivial signs of age. FIRST EDITION AND THE FIRST BOOK IN HERBERT’S EPIC SERIES, AND ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS OF ALL TIME. This finely produced Putnam edition attests to the near cult-like popularity that Frank Herbert had found with his complex story since its original publication in 1965. The story of Paul Atreides on the desert planet Arrakis had become one of the most famous and best selling novels of the genre. In 1975, it was voted by Science Fiction readers as the greatest novel ever, over such classics as LORD OF THE RINGS, 1984, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, and etc.