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Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with dust jacket, from a personal collection. 1976, this is the 1st printing of the 1st edition (first appeared in the anthology "Again, Dangerous Visions" edited by Harlan Ellison and released in 1972; won the Hugo Award for Best Short Novel in 1973). Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation and distributed by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 189pp. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page 15/16 has a small bit of discoloration at bottom outer corner, otherwise book is pretty much near fine. Book jacket design by Richard M. Powers. Dust jacket has price of $6.95 on inner flap. DJ has minor general edge and shelfwear, light sunning to spine, and a few small tears at head and heel of spine. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First separate edition of this Hugo-winning novella which originally appeared in Harlan Ellison's Again, Dangerous Visions in 1972. Signed by Ursula K. Le Guin on the title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Near Fine with a slight lean to the binding and two small spots to the cloth. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, light soiling, wear to spine ends, browning to the rear panel and several small areas to the blindside with bleeding from green of the cloth. An uncommon first edition, even more so signed.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.