Featured Personal copy of 'Dune',by the man who made sure it got published.

***NOTE-I don't own this volume***

https://historical.ha.com/heritage-...r-who-forced-its-publication.s?releaseId=3975

 

Well Hell, Bosko...I think you should!
As I have advised in the past; Throw a few bucks around...what are y'savin' it for, anyway?
Do yer part to lift the economy, fella!

 

$7500 is cheap. That's from 2020. I see first editions online for upwards of $20K. I have a first edition that's minty fresh... but it's a third printing.

 

The only firsts I've ever had of 'Dune' were 2-3 of the paperbacks.I remember first reading it the week 'Laugh-In' premiered-January 22, 1968.
About 6 mos before my first girlfriend's brother,an older urbane fellow of 18,suggested I read Asimov's 'Foundation'. He was an interesting guy who (w/ his parent's permission) collected wine and listened to Mahler.

 

I keep thinking I want to re-read the Foundation trilogy, but I haven't done anything about it.

At one time I had all the Dune books, most of them first editions, but I dumped them decades ago. I felt it was one of those situations where the sequels didn't measure up, but from a money point of view, it's a loss (not that I would be selling them).

 

One of my favorite set of sci-fi books.

 

I read the Foundation trilogy before I got out of high school. Dune too. I had a first American edition of Animal Farm here, paid pennies, but gave it to my cousin for CHristmas. He's the one who got me into SF, so it seemed fair.

 

I'm right there with ya, MOS...read it inna mid-late '60's an' would dearly love to have the time to disappear into it for days at a time, as then...what a refreshing series, tho' the details of much are lost; they should be required reading, imho.

 

I read book 1 just a year ago-Hari Seldon.

 

This is the book you really want to find:


https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6345488

 

Most of us of a certain age and sensibility heard about or saw Jodorowsky's 'El Topo' or 'Santa Sangre'.
It's wild how certain cult and or visionary art resonates with some collectors-2,666 million euros !
You wonder how many 'niche' arcane objects are out there hidden just waiting for the auction block ?

 

Incredible...simply that...full stop.

 

Definitely one of my favorite stories of moron buyers in the art world... For anyone unaware why it went for 3mil and not 35k:

"The book was offered in a Christie’s Paris sale on 22 November with an estimate of €25,000-€35,000 and bought for more than 100 times its low estimate (€2.6m, or $3m, including fees) by an anonymous group identified as Spice DAO (decentralised autonomous organisation), whose members mistakenly believed that the purchase granted them the copyright to the book, which they intended to splice and sell as NFTs before burning the physical copy.

The group stated that its goal is to “issue a collection of NFTs that are technically innovative and culturally disruptive, a first-of-its-kind”, and that burning the book would be an “incredible marketing stunt which could be recorded on video”, with the video itself sold as an NFT.

Spice DAO also claimed that it would digitise and make the book public, that it would produce an original animated series based on the book for a streaming service, and that it would “support derivative projects”.

However, the Internet was quick to point out that the book is already available to view online for free, and that the purchase does not grant Spice DAO the rights to produce works based on its contents. An NFT series, for example, would likely be met with a lawsuit from the actual copyright holders, currently the Herbert Limited Partnership." - The Art Newsletter

The "Spice DAO" couldn't even afford the book and one member put up the rest of the funds. The downfall began almost immediately and they decided to try and resell the book. The group decided to dissolve in Jul 22.

And anyone who wants to read it for free, can do that here. Highly, highly recommended. Just amazing work.

 

Good to know the whole story, but they had to be bidding against someone.

 

I'm not sure who...because they re-sold it for only 100k.

I'd still take a 100k book find though.

 

Same here.(LOL) It wouldn't solver every problem, but it could fix a few!