G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1985, 3^rd pr.  ISBN 0-399-13027-6.  Hard cover, 464 pages.  Light edge and corner wear; spine creased, binding sound with headbands and a lean; a few spots on outer page block.  Dust jacket price-clipped, some creases, tears and repairs on verso; edge, corner and spine end wear; some rubs and scratches.  Small mark on FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with toned pages.  ‘Now 1,500 years after Leto, his Golden Path has led to Armageddon:  The remnants of the only institution remaining from the Old Empire, the Bene Gesserit, are locked in a fight to the death against the Honored Matres – the bloodthirsty, violent leaders of an alien culture born out of the Scattering after Leto’s death.  A cosmology is at stake.  A new civilization must be forged from treasured memories of the old.  A new Dune must arise, and with it, the writing o a history no human being, living or dead, can ever have dared imagine.’ (from flaps)