Dispossessed Novel by Guin Ursula, First Edition (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. 1st Edition. Spine, binding and cover all fine; contents very clean, with a small inscription on the inside cover. Dustcover very good, extremely slight wear on foot of spine. Rare. 319 pages.

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.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A very smart first UK edition of this anarchist utopian science fiction novel by Ursula Le Guin. First edition. An anarchist utopian science fiction novel from the Hainish Cycle novels. This novel features the development of the mathematical theory underlying a fictional device capable of communications faster than the speed of light, sending messages between star systems. It is one of a small number of books to win all three Hugo, Locus and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. Written by Ursula Le Guin, an American author best known for her science fiction novels. In the original black cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear only. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light shelf wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Near Fine. book.