Ursula K. Le Guin : The Dispossessed (SIGNED) The Easton Press 1986

The Dispossessed

By Ursula K. Le Guin

Published by The Easton Press, Connecticut, 1986. Collector's Edition bound in genuine leather. With Signed bookplate laid-in with the book. Full leather binding with gilt blocked board and spine. Gilt to all page edges. Patterned endpapers. 341 pages.

CONDITION
A very good clean copy throughout. Binding very good with no damage or marks. Endpapers very clean. No names or writing to the book. Pages immaculate throughout. Overall a fine copy of this US collector's edition.

The Dispossessed is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. It is one of a small number of books to win all three Hugo, Locus and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. It achieved a degree of literary recognition unusual for science fiction due to its exploration of themes such as anarchism and revolutionary societies, capitalism, utopia, individualism, and collectivism.

It features the development of the mathematical theory underlying a fictional ansible, a device capable of faster-than-light communication (it can send messages without delay, even between star systems) that plays a critical role in the Hainish Cycle. The invention of the ansible places the novel first in the internal chronology of the Hainish Cycle, although it was the fifth published.

(Glass Cabinet 4)