Sold for $5,500

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

Lot Description

HERBERT, Frank (1920-1986). Dune. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1965.

8vo. Original publisher’s blue cloth (slight discoloration on bottom edge of rear cover); pictorial dust jacket (rear panel stained, touch of wear to upper corners of spine panel, short split on upper edge of rear panel, slight rubbing to front flap fold); custom morocco folding case with Dune design from title.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, in First Issue dust jacket priced $5.95 on the front flap and the 4 lines in the Chilton address on the rear flap.

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