Published by Chiltern Book Company (1965). Bound by Glenn Malkin (2023)
The book is sewn onto four linen tapes and bound in full Harmatan goat leather. There are hand-sewn silk endbands, full leather doublures and suede endpapers. The edges are decorated with acrylics and sprinkled gold leaf. The design is created using airbrushed acrylic inks, back-pared leather onlays and inlaid craquelle leather circles. There are blind and gold tooled elements and a blind tooled feature on the doublures. The binding is presented in a bespoke sycamore box lined with suede and with a decorative leather title panel to the lid.
The design represents an abstraction of the landscape of Arrakis, the foreground representing the dunes of the desert-planet, with a suggestion of mountainous terrain on the rear board. The twin moons are a main feature of the design and the two distant blue dunes also represent the startling blue eyes of the Fremen people. The doublures feature a representation of the dangerous ‘sand worm’. The edge decoration and the subtle gold tooling on the binding represent the fluorescence of ‘spice’, the substance at the heart of the story.
