The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert
by Herbert, Frank
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As new. Very fine in very fine jacket housed in archival mylar.
- ISBN 10
- 0765336960
- ISBN 13
- 9780765336965
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 2014. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. As new. Very fine in very fine jacket housed in archival mylar.. Quarto in illus pirple & blank jacket; 700 pages; 25 cm. "Frank Herbert, the New York Times bestselling author of Dune, is one of the most celebrated and commercially successful science fiction writers of all time. But while best known for originating the character of Paul Atreides and the desert world of Arrakis, Herbert was also a prolific writer of short fiction. His stories were published individually in numerous pulps and anthologies spanning decades, but never collected, until now." Contents: Looking for something? (1952) -- Operation syndrome (1954) -- The gone dogs (1954) -- Pack rat planet (1954) -- Rat race (1955) -- Occupation force (1955) -- The nothing (1956) -- Cease fire (1956) -- A matter of traces (1958) -- Old rambling house (1958) -- You take the high road (1958) -- Missing link (1959) -- Operation haystack (1959) -- The priests of Psi (1960) -- Egg and ashes (1960) -- A-W-F Unlimited (1961) -- Mating call (1961) -- Try to remember (1961) -- Mindfield (1962) -- The tactful saboteur (1964) -- Mary Celeste move (1964) -- Greenslaves (1965) -- Committee of the whole (1965) -- The GM effect (1965) -- The primitives (1966) -- Escape Felicity (1966) -- By the book (1966) -- The featherbedders (1967) -- The being machine (1969) -- Seed stock (1970) -- Murder will in (1970) -- Passage for piano (1973) -- Gambling device (1973) -- Encounter in a lonely place (1973) -- Death of a city (1973) -- Come to the party (1978) with F.M. Busby -- Songs of a sentient flute (1979) -- Frogs and scientists (1979) -- Feathered pigs (1979) -- The daddy box. Human-alien encounters -- Fiction. Space flight -- Fiction. Human-alien encounters -- Fiction. Space flight -- Fiction. Human-alien encounters. Space flight. Kurzgeschichte Erzählung Science-Fiction-Literatur Amerikanisches Englisch.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92826
- Title
- The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert
- Author
- Herbert, Frank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing (full number line)
- ISBN 10
- 0765336960
- ISBN 13
- 9780765336965
- Publisher
- TOR/Tom Doherty Associates
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2014
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