Frank Herbert~Bill Ransom 1986 hc 1stprt THE and similar items

True first printing, meeting all points [ISFDB 158271]. Tight, flat, square, sharp, crisp and clean book in DJ with wrinkles and broken ink fields due to wrinkling along the edges; nick, chips and small tears. ? 1982 No statement of edition or printing. ? Month of publication from the code 8209 on the front flap. ? Jacket illustration 1982 by Abe Echevarria; A.Echevarria 81 is on the artwork The White Plague, a marvelous and terrifyingly plausible blend of fiction and visionary theme, tells of one man who is pushed over the edge of sanity by the senseless murder of his family and who, reappearing several months later as the so-called Madman, unleashes a terrible plague upon the human race?one that zeros in, unerringly and fatally, on women.