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Ursula K. Le Guin. The Left Hand of Darkness. Walker, 1969.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Book club edition. Very light wear to edges and top/bottom spine of dust jacket. Book has very lightly bumped spine at top and bottom. A handsome, collectible copy with Jack Gaughan cover.

Seller: Apport Used Books, Emmaus, PA, U.S.A.

Le Guin, Ursula K.. The Left Hand of Darkness. Ace Books, New York, 1969.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First issue. About Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned, rubbed at the edges, a crease near the center of the front wrap. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first Hainish novel. The Ace paperback precedes the Walker hardcover edition.

Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.

Le Guin, Ursula K.. THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS [Collector's Custom Clamshell case only - Not a book]. Walker & Company, New York, 1969.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Description: 1st Edition Custom made Clamshell Collector's Case. Custom Collector's Clamshell Case for the First Edition of Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand Of Darkness. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] No Binding. HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished in rich black Nuba® with a 'sculpted design [after the book's distinct illustrated wrapper] on the side.with Blue Cloth and Velour finished interior. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Handsome Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. Generally over 100 in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. "Book definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age especially if covered in mylar. *The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests. 1st Edition Custom made Clamshell Collector's Case.

Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada

ursula k le guin. the left hand of darkness. walker and company, new york, 1969.

Price: US$226.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description:

Seller: leaves, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.

Le Guin, Ursula K.(LeGuin). The Left Hand of Darkness (SIGNED label laid in). Harper & Row, 1969.

Price: US$255.00 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: STATED FIRST EDITION but it is not the true first.Great book & DJ in AS NEW FINE excellent condition.DJ price clipped. Appears unread. Bright, clean,tight,square. Le Guin signature on label laid in.This edition states "First Edition" and 1969 but it is not. Walker published the first edition in 1969.Harper just bought the rights and the printing plates from Walker in 1980 and published this edition without changing it. Shelf1061 PHOTOS POSTED WITH OUR BOOKS ARE STOCK AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT CONDITION OR EDITION OF BOOK OFFERED FOR SALE. WE DO NOT POST THE PHOTOS

Seller: BookManBookWoman Books, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.

Ursula Le Guin. The Left Hand of Darkness - First Edition. Walker (NY), 1969.

Price: US$525.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Walker (NY) 1969 First Edition, First Printing. Very Good + in dark gray binding with black titles in a Very Good + DJ, not price clipped the original $4.95 remains intact. This copy is a former library book with associated markings but remains very clean. One stamp on the top edge of the page block, card pocket on the front free end page, stamp on the title page, ghost marks from once taped down DJ, library sticker at the foot of the spine.

Seller: Chris Grobel, Arlington, TX, U.S.A.

Le Guin, Ursula. The Left Hand Of Darkness. Walker, 1969.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book Club edition inscribed by Le Guin and date 11 10 00. A very nice copy.

Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Le Guin, Ursula. The Left Hand Of Darkness. Walker, 1969.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book of the Month Club edition inscribed by the author on the first title page. Scrape to the jacket on the back panel, otherwise a very nice copy. Book Club edition of this work that ranks among the most important books of the twentieth century.

Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Le Guin, Ursula K.. The Left Hand of Darkness. Ace Publishing Corporation, New York, 1969.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Description: Signed paperback original first edition, preceding the Walker hardcover, of Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction classic. The book was popular after its release, even though it was well ahead of its time, exploring themes of sex and gender, specifically the elimination thereof. It won both the Nebula and Hugo awards the following year. Signed copies of the paperback original are scarce. 8vo, 286, [2]pp. Signed by Le Guin on the title page. Wrappers with iconic illustration by Leo & Diane Dillon. Light spine creasing, previous marking blacked out on bottom edge of page block, with an additional marking of "B" on front cover. Otherwise, nicely preserved and tight. Very good+

Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.

LeGuin, Le Guin, Ursula. THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS (SIGNED label laid in FIRST EDITION Hugo & Nebula winner). Walker and Company, New York, 1969.

Price: US$1395.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Great book by brilliant author. SIGNED label bookplate of LeGuin laid in that she mailed to me. Book & DJ in Very Good condition.Book has "Library Copy" stamped on bottom edge but nowhere else and no call number, no card pocket, no date due slip and no removal residue. Also FFEP has "3003" and "July 22 1969" stamped on it. RFEP has pencilled notes with the kind of references to characterization and events with page numbers that read like a reviewers notes. At those pages the reviewer writer has more handwritten pencilled notes, checks, and a few words underlined (in pencil).Blue top stain incomplete and white at points.DJ complete but has one inch chip at top of spine, quarter inch chip across bottom of spine. Closed short tears to all corners. DJ slightly browned. Book and DJ clean, square, tight.Shelf317 . PHOTOS POSTED WITH OUR BOOKS ARE STOCK AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT CONDITION OR EDITION OF BOOK OFFERED FOR SALE. WE DO NOT POST THE PHOTOS

Seller: BookManBookWoman Books, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.

LeGuin, Le Guin, Ursula. THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS. Walker, 1969.

Price: US$3217.00 + shipping

Description: THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS, Walker, 1969, first edition, near fine in like illustrated dust-wrapper with a half inch closed tear to the lower margin of the rear dust-wrapper panel. The first of the authors 2 HUGO winning novels. SIGNED by the author on a bookplate laid in. $3,277 postpaid $2,875

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

LE GUIN, Ursula K.. The Left Hand of Darkness.. New York: Walker and Company, 1969, 1969.

Price: US$4873.30 + shipping

Description: First hardback edition, first printing, of Le Guin's first major success, from the library of Judy-Lynn Del Rey, the pioneering science fiction editor (née Benjamin), with the bookplate on the front free endpaper. The Left Hand of Darkness first appeared as an Ace paperback earlier the same year, but the hardback edition is preferred. Del Rey was the managing editor of Galaxy magazine from 1969 until 1971, later moving to Ballantine Books where she was given her own imprint, Del Rey Books. Philip K. Dick hailed her as "a master craftsman" and "probably the greatest editor since Maxwell Perkins". She worked with Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clark, Anne McCaffrey, and Robert A. Heinlein. Asimov dedicated The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (2000) to Del Rey, describing her in his introduction as "an incredibly intelligent, quick-witted, hard-driving woman who seems to be burning constantly with a bright radioactive glow". Her bookplate is from notably early in her career, predating her marriage to Lester Del Rey in 1971. She would go on to obtain the rights to publish George Lucas's Star Wars books a year before the movie was released. The Left Hand of Darkness is part of the Hainish cycle. The story follows the adventures of a solitary interstellar envoy on the icy planet "Winter" among its ambisexual inhabitants, culminating in the realization of a profound supra-sexual love. It won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel and was ranked by Locus magazine in 1987 as the second most important science fiction novel after Frank Herbert's Dune. This edition should not be confused with the less desirable Book Club Edition, which has a gutter code on p. 213 and "Book Club Edition" printed on the front flap. Cogell A14. Philip K. Dick, "Interview: The Mainstream That Through the Ghetto Flows", available online. Octavo. Original grey boards, spine lettered in black, top edge blue, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped, board edges and contents faintly toned; jacket toned, spine panel moreso, a little silverfishing and a few nicks to edges, unclipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom