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STARTLING STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Better Publications, Inc., 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Alex Schomburg, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by L. Sprague De Camp, Leigh Brackett, Frank Herbert and others. The Herbert story, "Looking For Something" is his first published science fiction story. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 611-617.
THE JESUS INCIDENT.
New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1979]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Herbert on the title page. A sequel to Herbert's DESTINATION: VOID (1966). "The earlier novel's star-farers and their godlike computer arrive at the planet Pandora, where they come into conflict with some particularly vile life-forms. An ineffective adventure, but stuffed with ideas." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 195. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-267.
THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1977]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Herbert, dated 1977, on the title page. THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT, a sequel to WHIPPING STAR, is a detailed examination of alien intelligence. "Among contemporary sf writers only Ian Watson has addressed this theme as frequently and as convincingly." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 559.
THE DRAGON IN THE SEA.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956. Octavo, illustration by Mel Hunter, boards. First edition. Author's first science fiction book. Good first novel of a submarine on a sensitive mission and the extreme stress on the crew. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-523. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 595-99.
EYE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1986. Octavo, illustrations by Jim Burns, boards. First British edition. Collects thirteen stories. Includes "The Road to Dune" a short guide with numerous illustrations and a six page introduction by Herbert in which he writes about the production of the David Lynch film.
EYE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1986. Octavo, illustrations by Jim Burns, boards. First British edition. Collects eleven stories, an excerpt from the novel THE DRAGON IN THE SEA, and excerpts from an illustrated tourist guide to the world of Dune. A collection of short fiction by "a major SF novelist who really was not a short-story writer ... Minor stuff." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 126.
GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1981]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Signed by Herbert on the title page. Fourth Dune novel. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 407. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-524.
HELLSTROM'S HIVE.
[London]: New English Library, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Inscribed and signed by Herbert on the title page. "A scientist runs an underground project which is designed to further the next stage in human evolution. This is a powerful story which investigates the psychology of "hive" behavior in human beings (analogous to the societies of insects)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 171. Somewhat of a novelization suggested by the script of the film "The Hellstrom Chronicle" (1971). This edition preceded by the Science Fiction Book Club and the mass market paperback editions.
THE PRIESTS OF PSI AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1980. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Herbert. Collects five stories, three appearing here for the first time in a book and another collected here for the first time in a book solely by Herbert.
THE SANTAROGA BARRIER.
[London]: Rapp & Whiting, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed by Herbert on the title page. "A small American town harbors a mystery: all its citizens seem to be unified against the outside world. It transpires that an experiment with a new drug has endowed the townsfolk with group-mindedness. One of Herbert's more effective treatments of the hive mentality-and the possible next step in the evolution of human intelligence." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 313. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-398. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1859-62.
SOUL CATCHER.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1972]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
THE WHITE PLAGUE.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. As revenge for the death of his wife and children a molecular biologist creates a pathogen that kills only women, but men are the carriers. Targeting only three countries it quickly gets out of hand and becomes a world wide pandemic. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-526.
THE WORLDS OF FRANK HERBERT...
Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Text offset from that of the 1977 Berkley edition. Collection of nine stories. New introduction by William M. Schuyler, Jr.