Dune. by HERBERT, Frank - 1965

Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1965. A seminal work of science fiction First edition, first printing, in a lovely example of the first issue jacket, the spine, prone to fading, here entirely unfaded and bright. The first novel in Herbert's Dune saga won the first Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966, jointly won the Hugo Award the following year, and in 1987 topped Locus magazine's poll of all-time best novels.
A seminal work in science fiction Dune is among the best-known and most widely read in the genre, and is the basis of the 1984 and award-winning 2021 film adaptations. Herbert was explicit in his hopes that the work would raise environmental awareness and Dune is cited as the "first planetary ecology novel on a grand scale" (James & Mendlesohn, p. 183). As part of his extensive research Herbert read T. E. Lawrence's key memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926), and Dune's final form draws heavily on Lawrence's exploits and relationship with the Middle East.
Following this debut Herbert wrote five sequels in the saga. His son, Brian Herbert, and author Kevin J. Anderson, continued the series after his death in 1986, with over a dozen additional novels.
The first issue jacket has four lines of publisher information on rear flap, later changed to two. Octavo. Original light blue cloth, spine lettered in white, textured decorative endpapers. With dust jacket, designed by John Schoenherr. Cloth foxed, damp marks at bottom edges of boards, foxing to edges, otherwise clean, book block square, still a very good copy, presenting well in a lovely example of the jacket, couple of trivial marks, notably bright and sharp. Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, 2003.