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The Dispossessed
by Ursula Le Guin
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- Seller
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Kington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Unlike many of her contemporaries in the late 20th Century, Le Guin's setting of worlds were not about other times or in deed worlds - but about the present reality. Our world. This novel won the Nebula for best novel and is about the Vietnam War. It introduces concepts such as "prisons" as no ones knows where it came from etc.
This is a nice copy of the British first edition. The book is square and the binding tight, with no inscriptions. Internally nice and clean. The faults are toning to the top and side edges; and remains of a mark to the half title page. The jacket is protected and the only fault is very slight edge wear to the top of the spine and it is price-clipped. It a nice copy of a desirable dystopia novel.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Scorpion Press
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 183
- Title
- The Dispossessed
- Author
- Ursula Le Guin
- Format/Binding
- Black cloth over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition and first print.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1972
- Pages
- 319
- Size
- 9" x 5.3/4"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Science Fiction, Futist, Classic Lterature of mid 20th Century
Terms of Sale
Scorpion Press
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Items of value we recommend Special Delivery in the UK, and Tracked & Signed with additional insurance cover overseas.
About the Seller
Scorpion Press
Biblio member since 2019
Kington, Herefordshire
About Scorpion Press
Bookseller in the late 1980's selling via catalogues and fairs. Then migrated to publishing special editions as Scorpion Press. Over 100 titles published including major crime and mystery authors: Dick Francis, Colin Dexter, Ruth Rendell, Ian Rankin, Bernard Cornwell, Len Deighton. Now concentrating on leather rebindings in runs of twelve copies - signed on an author profile page.
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