9780060125639 - The Dispossessed: an Ambiguous Utopia by Le Guin, Ursula K (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.24.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.24.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A physicist from isolated Anarres travels to the mother planet, Urras, in hopes of dissolving the hatred that exists between them.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Erstwhile owner's bookplate on front pastedown; interior pages with text without any extraneous marks. Gutter code: 21Q. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.24.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Book club edition, gutter code 48R. Corners lightly bruised, light 1 inch stain on jacket spine base. 1974 Hard Cover. 338 pp. 8vo. An important work of utopian fiction by Le Guin, which won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards, and was nominated for the John W. Campbell award. On the surface, Le Guin's story of the brilliant physicist Shevek is a tale of a futuristic world, and the struggle of the civilizations on two separate planets to reconcile with each other's way of life. Beneath the surface run deep undercurrents of meaning -- philosophical, religious, and scientific themes that transcend the story itself. Shevek's quest to reconcile two seemingly antithetical schools of theoretical physics is also the individual's quest to reconcile individuality with social behavior, identity with belonging, and freedom with responsibility. Colored by the Taoist sensibilities with which Le Guin has long been fascinated, the parallels drawn in The Dispossessed are simultaneously vivid and subtle -- the style of writing embodies the very ideas that Le Guin attempts to convey. Widely praised even beyond the usual literary circles of science fiction, The Dispossessed is a true masterpiece, the consummation of a unique and detailed vision of a distant world surprisingly similar to our own.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. little wear and tear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Uncommon first! A heavily worn but intact copy. Good hardback: spine heavily cocked; all edges lightly rubbed and bumped; text block edges lightly soiled; previous owner's ink marks IN MARGINS ONLY and extensively on rear free endpapers and (otherwise blank) title page; spine lettering heavily abraded. In a Good to Good+ unclipped dust jacket with extensive wear and chipping along both edges, a 1/4" loss at upper front left corner, a 1" tear at top left rear corner, and light diagonal creasing. Dust jacket also has ink annotations on inner flaps. Jacket now protected in a Brodart. A heavily worn but complete copy of this very uncommon title.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('For Larry, at last. Ursula Leguin'). Light crease down front jacket flap, spine head lightly pushed. Binding tight, pages clean and bright. 1974 Hard Cover. 338 pp. 8vo. An important work of utopian fiction by Le Guin, which won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards, and was nominated for the John W. Campbell award. On the surface, Le Guin's story of the brilliant physicist Shevek is a tale of a futuristic world, and the struggle of the civilizations on two separate planets to reconcile with each other's way of life. Beneath the surface run deep undercurrents of meaning -- philosophical, religious, and scientific themes that transcend the story itself. Shevek's quest to reconcile two seemingly antithetical schools of theoretical physics is also the individual's quest to reconcile individuality with social behavior, identity with belonging, and freedom with responsibility. Colored by the Taoist sensibilities with which Le Guin has long been fascinated, the parallels drawn in The Dispossessed are simultaneously vivid and subtle -- the style of writing embodies the very ideas that Le Guin attempts to convey. Widely praised even beyond the usual literary circles of science fiction, The Dispossessed is a true masterpiece, the consummation of a unique and detailed vision of a distant world surprisingly similar to our own. Signed by author.

Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "The novel reveals the author's understanding of anarchist theories with the idea that the personal and political growth of the individual are complementary . [With her] complex literary, philosophical, and political construction, Le Guin challenges the idea of utopia itself and sets the basis for what has been called the 'critical utopia' -- an imperfect utopia in progress that, by questioning the very notion and convention of the genre, revitalizes it." - R. Baccolini, Fortunati and Trousson (eds), Dictionary of Literary Utopias, pp. 174-6. Winner of the 1974 Nebula and 1975 Hugo awards for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-640. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 74. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 548-53. A fine copy in fine dust jacket (priced $7.95 on the front flap). A lovely copy. (#172798).

Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "The novel reveals the author's understanding of anarchist theories with the idea that the personal and political growth of the individual are complementary . [With her] complex literary, philosophical, and political construction, Le Guin challenges the idea of utopia itself and sets the basis for what has been called the 'critical utopia' -- an imperfect utopia in progress that, by questioning the very notion and convention of the genre, revitalizes it." - R. Baccolini, Fortunati and Trousson (eds), Dictionary of Literary Utopias, pp. 174-6. Winner of the 1974 Nebula and 1975 Hugo awards for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-640. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 74. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 548-53. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with mild crease at upper edge of rear panel. A sharp copy and scarce thus. (#158938).

Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "The novel reveals the author's understanding of anarchist theories with the idea that the personal and political growth of the individual are complementary . [With her] complex literary, philosophical, and political construction, Le Guin challenges the idea of utopia itself and sets the basis for what has been called the 'critical utopia' -- an imperfect utopia in progress that, by questioning the very notion and convention of the genre, revitalizes it." - R. Baccolini, Fortunati and Trousson (eds), Dictionary of Literary Utopias, pp. 174-6. Winner of the 1974 Nebula and 1975 Hugo awards for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-640. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 74. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 548-53. Neat owner's signature and date on the front paste-down. Touch of foxing to top edge of text block, a nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with mild wrinkling to upper spine end and just a bit of foxing to the inner surface of the upper edge of the front flap and small area at bottom rear flap fold. (#139603).

[0-06-012563-2] 1974, 1st edition, 3rd printing. (hardcover) Very good in fine dust jacket. 341pp. 8vo. Ex-lib., with stamps and date paste down, partially removed, from the front free endpaper. That identified, this copy is a first edition, third printing and not a Book Club Edition (BCE). Jacket unclipped. Some residue to the cover, front and back. The Dispossessed is one of only a few books to win all of the big 3 science fiction awards: the Hugo, the Locus, and the Nebula, for best novel and received a degree of recognition unusual for sci fi, perhaps because it explored such themes as anarchism, revolutionary societies, capitalism, utopia, individualism and collectivism. The text is clean and the pages crisp. Overalll, a very good copy in a fine jacket which is protected in a loose mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Inscribed by Le Guin on the half-title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($6.95), faintly rubbed at the front flap fold. Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A remarkably fresh copy of Le Guin's Hugo Award-winning Hainish novel about the corruption of a peaceful civilization by Terran invaders, an allegory for the Vietnam War.