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Author:	Ursula K. Le Guin
Title:	The Dispossessed
Subtitle:	An Ambiguous Utopia
Publisher:	Harper & Row
Country:	USA
Date:	May 1974
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction, Society
ISBN-10:	0060125632
Total Editions:	4
Rating:	10.0 Rate
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ppint. 14th Jun 2023		harper & row h/cvr first printing, first edition so declared in indica sub-title is not on d-j cover (d-j) art by fred winkowski (unsigned, credited designed by on d-j back flap) cover (d-j) price $7.95 352pp. (check)/including (i)-vii pp. titles, indicia, b+w maps etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards distinguish from near-identical doubleday science fiction book club edition: cat# 6233 (7/1974) no price, states book club edition on d-j front flap, is not declared first edition in indicia, various printings: printer's gutter codes on p.337 include 21Q (= may 1974 first printing)



ppint. 14th Jun 2023		granada publishing group panther books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition sub-title is not on the cover cover art by anthony (tony) roberts (unsigned, painting probably signed, credited on back cover) cover price 75p 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia, 2pp. b+w maps of antares and urras, etc. refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish between ten near-identical printings (1975, 1976, 1977 75p, 1978 95p, 1979 95p, 1981 £1.50, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985 £1.95) before granada sold their publishing interest to wm. collins sons and the imprint & publisher change to grafton & collins, retaining the same cover art and isbn 1975 copies open market edition (which includes british airports), should all state special overseas edition in the indicia (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 14th Jun 2023		victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition sub-title is not on d-j cover (d-j) art (none: somewhat fancified shaded typographical title, author on plain black field) cover (d-j) price £2.80 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with map endpapers between cloth-covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 2nd Jan 2018		single step imported dozens and dozens of this superb novel prior to the publication of the uk p/b *vbg. it precedes human contact with the hainish oikumene, but not by very much. directly related is "the day before the revolution" (galaxy* vol.35 no.8, 8/74 (uk "20th edition" (also vol.35 no.8, 8/74 on the mast-head))), collected in "the wind's twelve quarters" (1975), q.v. despite the apparent mis-match cat# and isbn are both correct: isbn from indica page. 320pp including titles, indicia, b+w maps, etc. cover art by alex ebel cover price $1.75 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 15th Nov 2017		winner of both the hugo award for the best science fiction novel of the year from the members of the world science fiction convention, and the nebula award for best sf novel of the year from the science fiction writers of america. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed - Avon - Paperback - USA - 0380003821 (1975)

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Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed - Victor Gollancz - Hardcover - UK - 0575016787 (1974)

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Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed - Panther / Granada - Paperback - UK - 0586042199 (1975)