Frank Herbert. The Dragon in the Sea. Doubleday, New York, 1956.
Price: US$15.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Doubleday Science Fiction, New York, 1956, Hardcover First Bookclub Edition. Book Condition: some tanning to the pages, otherwise a very tight, unread, just about new copy, listed as Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good: wear at the corners and top/bottom of spine, otherwise clean and quite nice - jacket comes in a removable, archival, mylar sleeve.
Seller: Anthony Clark, Wolfville, NS, Canada
Herbert, Frank. THE DRAGON IN THE SEA. Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1956.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Science fiction novel of underwater warfare by the author of "DUNE". Book is like new in a near-mint jacket.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Herbert,Frank. The Dragon in the Sea. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1956.
Price: US$23.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in publisher's black cloth with lime green title lettering to spine.No Dust-Jacket.This copy has NO previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.Dated 1956 to copyright page but no indication of First Printing so likely an early book club edition.8vo 192pp
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
Frank Herbert. The Dragon in the Sea. Doubleday Science Fiction, New York, 1956.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing of the Book-of-the-Month club edition, the first seen by most readers, in the same format and quality as the bookstore edition. The first book by the author of the Dune series. A fine, clean, unmarked copy in a jacket that is fine but for a very small spine chip. Protected by a Brodart jacket cover.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Herbert, Frank. THE DRAGON IN THE SEA. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1956.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, illustration by Mel Hunter, boards. 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. Some binding glue stain to front gutter margin, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with mild rubbing to front spine fold and corner tips, mild stress crease to upper front panel and a small closed tear, 10 mm, to upper rear panel. (20870)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1215.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 192 Pp. Black Boards Stamped In Light Green. First Edition Stated. A Bright, Clean Copy With Just A Little Rubbing. Inscribed "To Gracie Townsend Who Taught Me All I Know About Politics! Frank Herbert." Grace C. Townsend, We Believe, Was A Staffer For Charles L. Mcnary, A Senator From Oregon. Herbert's Career As A Sf Novelist Began In 1955 With The Serial Publication Of Under Pressure In Astounding From November 1955; Afterward It Was Issued As This Book By Doubleday Titled The Dragon In The Sea. The Story Explored Sanity And Madness In The Environment Of A 21St-Century Submarine And Predicted Worldwide Conflicts Over Oil Consumption And Production. It Was A Critical Success But Not A Major Commercial One. During This Time Herbert Also Worked As A Speechwriter For Republican Senator Guy Cordon. Association Copies Inscribed By Herbert Are Uncommon; Plitical Inscriptions More Uncommon; See Wikipedia For A Quick Summary Of His Political Individualism.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
HERBERT, FRANK. The Dragon In The Sea. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1956.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original black cloth, lettered in lime green to the spine. 8vo - 192 pp. This title first appeared in "Astounding" in serial format. It was then published as a stand alone novel in 1956. It is his first published Science Fiction title. This copy signed by the author directly to the title page without inscription. Jacket art by Mel Hunter. This copy has a review slip laid in. There is some scuffing along the bottom edge of the book from shelf-wear. The jacket shows some very minor edge-wear. Near Fine / Near Fine.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$3200.73 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "for David, Frank Herbert", his printed name struck through. The recipient was David Hartwell (1941-2016), Herbert's editor at Berkeley/Putnam in the 1970s and "perhaps the single most influential book editor of the past forty years in the American science fiction publishing world" (Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). Over the course of his long career, Hartwell edited works by Philip K. Dick and George R. R. Martin, compiled a number of science fiction anthologies, and established the New York Review of Science Fiction in 1988. He was nominated for 41 Hugo Awards, and won 3. Hartwell edited Herbert's Collected Stories in 2014 and wrote an account of his friendship with the author to coincide with the book's publication: "by the time I got a job as science fiction editor at Berkeley Books (then a division of G. P. Putnams) I had been reading Frank's work for more than twenty years, having admired it since high school. The contract I inherited was for the third Dune book, Children of Dune, and that was the first one I worked on with him. I went to his house in Port Townsend, Washington, a couple of times, and we got to know one another better. Frank was in those days kind of a big blond-bearded Santa Claus figure who had immense enthusiasms, often about new technologies, but always about ideas, and about stories. He was clever and inventive. I could tell stories about publishing Children of Dune, and more about publishing his book on using home computers, and how no one really believed that they would sell well. But some of my favorite moments were visiting Seattle in the 1970s and 1980s when Frank was in town and having dinner at sunset on the water, sometimes also with my friend Vonda McIntyre, long friendly evenings of gossip and ideas. By that time Frank was a public figure, a bestselling writer, and there was a film adaptation of Dune coming out." In the same piece, Hartwell describes The Dragon in the Sea as "one of my early favorite science fiction novels. a prescient story about international oil theft from undersea wells in an oil-starved future". The novel was originally serialized in Astounding as "Under Pressure" in 1955-6. David G. Hartwell, "Frank Herbert, His Fiction, and Me", Tor/Forge Blog, 1 December 2014. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in green. With dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed at extremities; jacket spine lightly sunned as often, a few tiny nicks and creases to extremities, minimal rubbing, overall bright and unclipped: a near-fine copy in near-fine jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom