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Children of Dune
by Herbert, Frank
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399116974
- ISBN 13
- 9780399116971
- Seller
-
Albany, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Berkley/G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1976. First US Edition/Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Poor/Good. The third book in the Dune series. In red cloth with gilt titling to spine. An ex-library copy with fraying/rubbing through bottoms of boards and spine ends. Tape shadows and moisture staining to boards and endpapers. Light staining to bottom corner of text block with slight ripple to bottom edge of same. Stamps, stickers and paper scars to endpapers and stamp to title page. Split to bottom third of front hinge at endpapers and rear hinge at verso of rfep with mull showing. Some slight warping to boards. Jacket is unclipped($8.95) with some light fading to spine and moisture staining to bottom edge of jacket, edge of front flap and inside of jacket. Some creasing to jacket and rippling to front panel. Slight cock to spine.
Synopsis
Children of Dune is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, third in a series of six novels set in the Dune universe. The novel was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1977. It was originally serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1976, and was the last Dune novel to be serialized before book publication. The novels Dune Messiah and Children of Dune were adapted into a well-received mini-series entitled Frank Herbert's Children of Dune by the Sci-Fi Channel in 2003.
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Details
- Seller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- LPB005261FH
- Title
- Children of Dune
- Author
- Herbert, Frank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition/Fourth Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0399116974
- ISBN 13
- 9780399116971
- Publisher
- Berkley/G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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- Hinge
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- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
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