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ALWAYS COMING HOME ...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1986. Octavo, cloth. First British edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Le Guin, artist Margaret Chodos, and composer Todd Barton. "A richly detailed account of a gentle, postindustrial utopia in a northern California of the indeterminate future. The central narrative, of a young woman's development, is hedged around by vast quantities of supplementary material: folktales, poems, plays, maps, charts, appendices and glossary. All in all, an astonishing feat of the imagination, which the author herself calls "an archaeology of the future." It's Le Guin's magnum opus, but it may be daunting to some readers. The book contains numerous illustrations (by Margaret Chodos) and the first edition came with a cassette tape (music by Todd Barton), making it something of a multimedia experience." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 11. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-639. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #4. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD AND OTHER STORIES.
[New York]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects eight stories, six of which take place on worlds of the Ekumen. The novella, "Paradises Lost," a generation-ship story, is published here for the first time.
CITY OF ILLUSIONS.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1967]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace G-626. Paperback original. Sixth installment in the author's future history series. Earth has reverted to barbarism. The alien Shing crush all efforts to rekindle learning and science. A leader appears who may be able to help them, but he is himself an alien. Can he be trusted? The third Hainish novel. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 681-66. Reginald 08807.
THE COMPASS ROSE.
New York, Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First trade edition. Signed by Le Guin on the title page. Collection of twenty stories.
THE COMPASS ROSE: SHORT STORIES ...
Portland, San Francisco, Columbia: Pendragon Press / Underwood-Miller, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 550 numbered copies signed by Le Guin. Collects twenty stories.
THE DISPOSSESSED: AN AMBIGUOUS UTOPIA.
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1974]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "The novel reveals the author's understanding of anarchist theories with the idea that the personal and political growth of the individual are complementary ... [With her] complex literary, philosophical, and political construction, Le Guin challenges the idea of utopia itself and sets the basis for what has been called the 'critical utopia' -- an imperfect utopia in progress that, by questioning the very notion and convention of the genre, revitalizes it." - R. Baccolini, Fortunati and Trousson (eds), Dictionary of Literary Utopias, pp. 174-6. Winner of the 1974 Nebula and 1975 Hugo awards for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-640. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 74. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 548-53.
THE DISPOSSESSED: AN AMBIGUOUS UTOPIA.
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1974]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "The novel reveals the author's understanding of anarchist theories with the idea that the personal and political growth of the individual are complementary ... [With her] complex literary, philosophical, and political construction, Le Guin challenges the idea of utopia itself and sets the basis for what has been called the 'critical utopia' -- an imperfect utopia in progress that, by questioning the very notion and convention of the genre, revitalizes it." - R. Baccolini, Fortunati and Trousson (eds), Dictionary of Literary Utopias, pp. 174-6. Winner of the 1974 Nebula and 1975 Hugo awards for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-640. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 74. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 548-53.
THE EYE OF HERON.
New York, Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First separate U.S. edition. Inscribed and signed by Le Guin on the title page. First published in the original anthology MILLENNIAL WOMEN.
A FISHERMAN OF THE INLAND SEA.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1995]. Octavo, frontispiece by Pat Morrissey, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by LeGuin. Collects eight stories. Includes "Newton's Sleep," a story that "begins in a dystopia of a future North America with a destroyed environment and constant regional wars. The story then moves to a satellite that is supposed to be a eutopia based on reason, but anti-Semitism and the struggle for power undermine the eutopia while, at the end, imagination seems to be beginning to reshape even the physical layout." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. Introduction by James Gunn. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
FROM ELFLAND TO POUGHKEEPSIE.
Portland, OR: Pendragon Press, 1973. Wrappers. First edition. Paperback original, printed wrappers. Chapbook format. Of 776 copies this is 1/100 signed and numbered copies. Text of speech given by the author at the second annual Science Fiction Writers' Workshop at the University of Washington in the summer of 1972.
THE LATHE OF HEAVEN.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1971]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. A man's "dreams affect reality in drastic fashion. A psychiatrist attempts to harness his strange ability in order to make the world a better place, with unfortunate results. An effective parable which reads remarkably like a novel by Philip K. Dick (it was almost certainly intended by Le Guin as a tribute to that writer for whom she has expressed intense admiration elsewhere). Filmed as a TV movie in 1980." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 207. 1971 Nebula and 1972 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-642. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1161-64.
THE LATHE OF HEAVEN.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1971]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. A man's "dreams affect reality in drastic fashion. A psychiatrist attempts to harness his strange ability in order to make the world a better place, with unfortunate results. An effective parable which reads remarkably like a novel by Philip K. Dick (it was almost certainly intended by Le Guin as a tribute to that writer for whom she has expressed intense admiration elsewhere). Filmed as a TV movie in 1980." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 207. 1971 Nebula and 1972 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-642. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1161-64.
MALAFRENA.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1979]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "Malafrena asks something that cannot have occurred to very many of us: what it might have been like to live in a small, quiet principality of the Habsburg Empire during the great 19th-century upwellings of liberalism and nationalism. The country in question is the imaginary "Orsinia," whose history and geography Le Guin has been sketching to herself for a good many years. (See the short-story collection Orsinian Tales, 1976)....Malafrena is Le Guin's masterpiece to date—a provocative adventure firmly founded on an unmodish and undeviating nobility of style, of mind, and above all of responsible imagination." - Kirkus review, 1 October, 1979.
MALAFRENA.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1979]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition.
NINE LIVES.
[Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, Inc., 1992]. Small octavo, boards. First separate edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Le Guin. Short Story Hardback #30. A short fiction involving cloning. This short story was originally published in Playboy magazine under the byline U. K. Le Guin, later revised for hardcover publication in the collection THE WIND'S TWELVE QUARTERS. Nominated for a Nebula Award in 1969.
ROCANNON'S WORLD.
New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1977]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. Second U.S. hardcover edition. First printing of this edition with new introduction and textual corrections by Le Guin. "A human explorer, marooned on a far planet, attempts to save the place from an alien menace, and also learns 'mindspeech.' Well written, nicely imagined: the small beginning of a great SF career. Le Guin's first novel, and first of her 'Hainish' cycle of books." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 309.
ROCANNON'S WORLD.
New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1977]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. Second U.S. hardcover edition. First printing of this edition with new introduction and textual corrections by Le Guin. "A human explorer, marooned on a far planet, attempts to save the place from an alien menace, and also learns 'mindspeech.' Well written, nicely imagined: the small beginning of a great SF career. Le Guin's first novel, and first of her 'Hainish' cycle of books." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 309.
THREE HAINISH NOVELS: ROCANNON'S WORLD, PLANET OF EXILE, CITY OF ILLUSIONS.
Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., [1978]. Octavo, boards. First combined edition. First printing with code "T19" on page 370. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Collects ROCANNON'S WORLD, PLANET OF EXILE and CITY OF ILLUSIONS. The text was carefully copy edited by Jeff Levin and probably represents the best available text of these novels. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 681-66. Reginald 08807.
THE NORTON BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION: NORTH AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION, 1960-1990.
New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, [1993]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects sixty-seven stories spanning a thirty year period representing most if not all the major figures active at this time. Includes a twenty-seven page introduction by Le Guin and brief notes on the authors. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1373 & 14-24.
THE NORTON BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION: NORTH AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION, 1960-1990.
New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, [1993]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects sixty-seven stories spanning a thirty year period representing most if not all the major figures active at this time. Includes a twenty-seven page introduction by Le Guin and brief notes on the authors. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1373 & 14-24.
INTERFACES.
New York: Ace Books, [1980]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. Original anthology of eighteen stories. Author's include John Crowley, Avram Davidson and Grania Davis, Michael Bishop, Vonda McIntyre, Ed Bryant, James Tiptree, Jr. and others.