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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
by Le Guin, Ursula K
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060125632
- ISBN 13
- 9780060125639
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
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.
Synopsis
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness. The book won the Nebula Award in 1974, both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1975, and received a nomination for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1975. It is also notable for achieving a degree of literary recognition unusual for science fiction works.
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- The Book Bin
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BBS-2019143
- Title
- The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
- Author
- Le Guin, Ursula K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0060125632
- ISBN 13
- 9780060125639
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 8x5x1
- X weight
- 19 oz
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- Number Line
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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