The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Le Guin, Ursula K

HarperCollins Publishers, 1974. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Foxing visible across top edge of pages. Gutter code reads ""21Q"" on page 337. Dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harper & Row Pub., NY. Book Club. Hardcover . Used Good/yes Good. Hardback with dust jacket: no markings or underlining in text, previous owner's initials and date purchased on front end paper, tight and square; shows light aging and wear.

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Third Printing of the First Edit. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An apparent Third Printing of the stated First Edition [I.S.B.N.: 0-06-012563-2], published in 1974, handsomely bound in a pea-green, two-tone cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine still sharp and distinct. Slight forward cock to spine. Dust jacket present, light edgewear thereto and with a very short closed tear at front panel top; slight sunning to spine. Justifiable winner of the Science Fiction hat-trick: winner of the Hugo, the Locus, and the Nebula awards. Le Guin's two anthropologist parents (Alfred Kroeber and Theodora Kroeber) enabled her to explore political organization, utopia, anarchy, gender egalitarianism and myriad other topics in her prose. 341 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [0-06-012563-2] 1974, 1st edition, 3rd printing. (hardcover) 341pp. Very good in fine dust jacket. 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..

HarperCollins Publishers. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Harper & Row Pub., NY, 1974-05-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Harper & Row, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. Signed. Second printing, with number line at back of book to a '2.' Signed by Le Guin at the title page. Green cloth spine and green papered boards, very good with light edgewear, lightly bumped spine ends, small bump to bottom fore-edge corner of rear panel. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good in Mylar with light scuffing and edgewear, slight fading to spine. DJ cover price $7.95. Textblock edges lightly foxed. Pages else clean, text bright and unmarked.

Harper & Row Pub., NY. Collectible - Very Good. NY: Harper & Row 1974. Stated 1st edition. 1st printing with full number line on last pg. Hardcover 8vo 341 pgs. B/w map. Very good in a very good to near fine dust jacket. Spine ends slightly bumped. Slight foxing spots to top edge of textblock. Stamp from 'The World Future Society' in Washington DC on the front endpaper and half title pgs. Contents fine. Jacket is 1st state with 7.95 orig price on flap. Jacket slightly edgeworn. (Utopias, Science Fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Le Guin on the title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($7.95), bumped and with a few small chips at the head and foot of the spine. Quarter green cloth with green paper on the boards, lightly rubbed at the bottom edge. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Le Guin's Hainish novel of an anarchist utopia, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards.

New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 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.