Dune by Herbert, Frank - 1965

LONDON: EVELEIGH NASH. VG++/NONE. PUB 1912. FIRST EDITION. 16 PAGE PUBLISHER'S CATALOGUE AT THE BACK . A MUCH BETTER COPY OF THIS BOOK THAN USUALLY FOUND WITH SPINE GILT DULLED BUT STILL ALMOST AS BRIGHT AS THE FRONT COVER'S GILT TITLES AND A TRACE OF SOILING. TEXT IS VERY CLEAN WITH NO FOXING AND BINDING IS EXCELLENT EXCEPT FOR SOME MODEST WEAR AT THE SPINE CORNERS AND REAR SPINE EDGE. A GREAT COPY. .

NEW YORK NY: PUTNAM'S SONS (G.P.). NEAR FINE IN A NEAR FINE D.J.. PUB 1961. FIRST EDITION. ISBN: WITH "C22" ON TERMINAL LEAF / WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD. BOOK'S SPINE IS ONLY SLIGHTLY DARKENED WITH BRIGHT GILT TITLES, NOBUMPS TO CORNERS, AND VERY CLEAN INSIDE AND ON THE TOP EDGE OF THE TEXTWHICH IS STAINED LIGHT GREEN, AND WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THETEXT. SUPPLIED FIRST ISSUE D.J. IS VERY NICE WITH JUST A TRACE OF CORNERRUB AND EDGE WEAR, SOME LIGHT RUB AT THE LOWER THIRD OF THE SPINE PANEL,SOME TONING TO THE FLAPS TOP CORNERS, JUST A TRACE OF BARELY DETECTABLECOLOR-FADE/STICKER REMOVAL TO THE SPINE PANEL, A SHORT TEAR AT THE TOP OFTHE REAR PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED (FLAP PRICE IS $4.50). AEXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, FRESH COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. AND QUITE ABIT ABOVE AVERAGE FOR THIS SCIENCE FICTION HIGHSPOT.. Keywords: SCIENCE FICTION, HUGO AWARD, ABCDEF.

Boston: and Co, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. First fully illustrated US edition. xvi, 315pp. Salmon cloth stamped in gold and black, bevelled edges, dark brown endpapers, all edges gilt. With fifty-four plates and an engraved illustration in the text by A. de Neuville and L. Benett and a small drawing by Verne. Introduction by Adrien Marx. Translated by George M. Towle. In his article in the July/August 1996 issue of Firsts Arthur B. Edwards notes that "... there is a fully illustrated Osgood octavo edition, published at the end of November, 1873, taken from the British sheets. This is titled Around the World in Eighty Days, and is very scarce. It seems to have had production problems that caused the spine to crack and chip when the book was read; consequently no 1873 copies have been seen in better than good condition (p. 42)." Cloth is worn at spine ends, spine panel faded, hinges a bit tender, neatly penned inscription on flyleaf dated Christmas 1873. A very good copy. Barron, Anatomy of… Read More

New York: Putnam, 1963. Second printing. Very Good. New York: Putnam, 1963 Second printing Black boards with blue lettering Stated second impression, list of books by Heinlein opposite title page and copyright page has 8 lines plus "second impression" Back and front covers are splotched in places (something a PO had on their hands when handling the book?)spine is slightly cocked, bumping to spine Contents clean, bright and as new Dust jacket is not price clipped ($3.95) with some light rubbing and chipping around edges, now in protective cover

1975. A letter dated January 27, 1975 and written to Paul [presumably Paul Williams, Dick's close friend and eventual biographer] transmitting chapter one of Confessions [of a Crap Artist] (not included here) and, included here, two pages of "theological ramblings" related to Dick's "beginning to fashion a scientific theory about [his] theological experiences..." The letter covers a bit about the retrograde forces such as tachyons bleeding back at Earth due to the weakening field of time; one of the two pages of notes considers humans' (and Dick's) roles as avatars, with knowledge received from the Holy Spirit; the other page considers our inability to recognize God and postulates a "SF novel: Hefestus as VALIS" -- a very early mention of the acronym Dick developed for the "Vast Active Living Intelligence System" that he considered to be the nature of reality and the universe, after his psychological/religious epiphanies that he experienced in February and March of 1974. The theological writings are… Read More

LONDON: EVELEIGH NASH. VG++/NONE. PUB 1912. FIRST EDITION. 16 PAGE PUBLISHER'S CATALOGUE AT THE BACK . A MUCH BETTER COPY OF THIS BOOK THAN USUALLY FOUND WITH SPINE GILT DULLED BUT STILL ALMOST AS BRIGHT AS THE FRONT COVER'S GILT TITLES AND A TRACE OF SOILING. TEXT IS VERY CLEAN WITH NO FOXING AND BINDING IS EXCELLENT EXCEPT FOR SOME MODEST WEAR AT THE SPINE CORNERS AND REAR SPINE EDGE. A GREAT COPY. .

NEW YORK NY: PUTNAM'S SONS (G.P.). NEAR FINE IN A NEAR FINE D.J.. PUB 1961. FIRST EDITION. ISBN: WITH "C22" ON TERMINAL LEAF / WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD. BOOK'S SPINE IS ONLY SLIGHTLY DARKENED WITH BRIGHT GILT TITLES, NOBUMPS TO CORNERS, AND VERY CLEAN INSIDE AND ON THE TOP EDGE OF THE TEXTWHICH IS STAINED LIGHT GREEN, AND WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THETEXT. SUPPLIED FIRST ISSUE D.J. IS VERY NICE WITH JUST A TRACE OF CORNERRUB AND EDGE WEAR, SOME LIGHT RUB AT THE LOWER THIRD OF THE SPINE PANEL,SOME TONING TO THE FLAPS TOP CORNERS, JUST A TRACE OF BARELY DETECTABLECOLOR-FADE/STICKER REMOVAL TO THE SPINE PANEL, A SHORT TEAR AT THE TOP OFTHE REAR PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED (FLAP PRICE IS $4.50). AEXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, FRESH COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. AND QUITE ABIT ABOVE AVERAGE FOR THIS SCIENCE FICTION HIGHSPOT.. Keywords: SCIENCE FICTION, HUGO AWARD, ABCDEF.

Boston: and Co, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. First fully illustrated US edition. xvi, 315pp. Salmon cloth stamped in gold and black, bevelled edges, dark brown endpapers, all edges gilt. With fifty-four plates and an engraved illustration in the text by A. de Neuville and L. Benett and a small drawing by Verne. Introduction by Adrien Marx. Translated by George M. Towle. In his article in the July/August 1996 issue of Firsts Arthur B. Edwards notes that "... there is a fully illustrated Osgood octavo edition, published at the end of November, 1873, taken from the British sheets. This is titled Around the World in Eighty Days, and is very scarce. It seems to have had production problems that caused the spine to crack and chip when the book was read; consequently no 1873 copies have been seen in better than good condition (p. 42)." Cloth is worn at spine ends, spine panel faded, hinges a bit tender, neatly penned inscription on flyleaf dated Christmas 1873. A very good copy. Barron, Anatomy of… Read More

New York: Putnam, 1963. Second printing. Very Good. New York: Putnam, 1963 Second printing Black boards with blue lettering Stated second impression, list of books by Heinlein opposite title page and copyright page has 8 lines plus "second impression" Back and front covers are splotched in places (something a PO had on their hands when handling the book?)spine is slightly cocked, bumping to spine Contents clean, bright and as new Dust jacket is not price clipped ($3.95) with some light rubbing and chipping around edges, now in protective cover

1975. A letter dated January 27, 1975 and written to Paul [presumably Paul Williams, Dick's close friend and eventual biographer] transmitting chapter one of Confessions [of a Crap Artist] (not included here) and, included here, two pages of "theological ramblings" related to Dick's "beginning to fashion a scientific theory about [his] theological experiences..." The letter covers a bit about the retrograde forces such as tachyons bleeding back at Earth due to the weakening field of time; one of the two pages of notes considers humans' (and Dick's) roles as avatars, with knowledge received from the Holy Spirit; the other page considers our inability to recognize God and postulates a "SF novel: Hefestus as VALIS" -- a very early mention of the acronym Dick developed for the "Vast Active Living Intelligence System" that he considered to be the nature of reality and the universe, after his psychological/religious epiphanies that he experienced in February and March of 1974. The theological writings are… Read More