"WE WILL DELVE INTO THE MOST ANCIENT RECORDS, INTO THE VERY MYTHS OF DUNE": SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION

HERBERT, Brian and ANDERSON, Kevin J. Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. New York: Tor, 2002. Octavo, original faux brown leather, original matching slipcase. $950.

Signed Limited First Edition of this Dune prequel set ten thousand years before the events of the original books, signed by authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, numbered copy 4 of only 100 copies released to the trade.

"Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the grandest epics in the annals of imaginative literature. Selling millions of copies worldwide, it is science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings, a brilliantly imaginative epic of high adventure, unforgettable characters, and immense scope. Decades after Herbert's original novels, the Dune saga was continued by Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert, an acclaimed SF novelist in his own right, in collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson… Now Herbert and Anderson, working from Frank Herbert's own notes, reveal a pivotal epoch in the history of the Dune universe, the chapter of the saga most eagerly anticipated by readers… the long-ago war in which humans wrested their freedom from 'thinking machines.'" (Macmillan). Color frontispiece by Stephen Youll. Without dust jacket as issued, in the original slipcase. This is numbered copy 4 of 100 released to the trade, signed on a tipped-in leaf; another 26 lettered copies were reserved to the author and publisher. See Barron II-524.

A fine copy.