G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1984, 1^st.  ISBN 0-399-12898-0.  Hard cover, 480 pages.  A bit of age spotting on top edge; spine creased, binding sound with headbands and a slight lean.  Price clipped dust jacket has a few nicks along top edge, light creases and a few rubs.  Book interior clean and unmarked.  ‘It is several millennia after the fall of the God Emperor Leto II, ruler of the Imperium for 3500 years, whose destiny was to guide mankind onto his prescient “Golden Path.”  In the wake of his death has come the horror of the Scattering and the Famine Times, but still there remain the Bene Gesserit, the Spacing Guild and CHOAM.  Now bands of people are returning from the Scattering with visions of conquest; the strange, secretive Bene Tleilax decide the time has come for their ascendancy; and the wise women of the Bene Gesserit have resurrected yet another Duncan Idaho ghola to ensure the proper course for man.  A power play of some immeasurable consequence is in motion.’ (from flaps)