Seller: Pulpfiction Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
First Edition
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.
Published by Harper & Row, New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0060125632 ISBN 13: 9780060125639
Language: English
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
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).
Published by Harper & Row, New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0060125632 ISBN 13: 9780060125639
Language: English
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
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).
Published by Harper & Row, New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0060125632 ISBN 13: 9780060125639
Language: English
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
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).
Published by The Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 1986
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Morrissey, Pat (illustrator). Presumed First Edition Thus. Presumed first edition thus w/NAP, hardcover bound in full red leather with gilt titling and decoration, and the publisher's Collector's Notes are laid in. The book has a shallow lean to the binding, very slight bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and an area of rubbing to the gilt on the top edge. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight Very Good copy.
Published by Folio Society, [2019], 2019
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations (two double-page) and endpaper maps; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in publisher's blocked slip-case. VERY SCARCE.
Published by Harper & Row, Publishers [1974], New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London, 1974
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. "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. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-640. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 74. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 548-53]. Foxing to top page edges, a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (25041).
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1974
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1974. First UK Edition. Octavo. 319 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt; pink illustrated endpapers with maps of Anarres and Urras. Mild wear to edges of dust jacket with a few minor nicks; minor scuffing. Board show minor shelfwear and bumping to edges. Binding sound and interior unmarked. A Very Good copy of Le Guin's utopian novel, which uses anarchistic themes to explore political systems, gender roles, and class conflict. In "Dictionary of Literary Utopias," the authors praise the novel's "complex literary, philosophical, and political construction," noting that "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." [Fortunati & Trousson, pp.174-176].