The Dispossessed, first UK edition, first printing.

LE GUIN, Ursula K.: THE DISPOSSESSED

London: Victor Gollancz, 1964. 14 x 22 cm. [319]pp 

First UK edition, first printing. 

A very fine copy, with tight binding and the publisher's original black cloth looking fresh and clean. No inscriptions of any kind, no visible marks throughout. Complete with a near fine dust wrapper without tears or fading, nor price-clipped. Beautiful hot pink original endpapers featuring some of Le Guin's Hainish confederacy planets.

"It performs one of science fiction's prime functions, which is to create another kind of social system to see how it would work. Or if it would work." -- Theodore Sturgeon

Le Guin's novel of anarchism, revolution, collectivism and utopia is the seventh novel to be published in the "Hainish Cycle", but the first one chronologically. The Dispossessed is Le Guin's powerful meditation on pacifism and non-violent resistance, and her first book to depict the "ansible", a device that allows for instant communication.

A rare near-perfect copy of one of the seminal works in the history of Science Fiction, by one of the authors who help reformulate the genre in its new form.

£350