The Left Hand of Darkness, First UK edition (+) HOLOGRAPH LETTER

LE GUIN, Ursula K.: THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS

London: Macdonald Science Fiction, 1969. 13.5 x 20.5 cm. 286pp 

First UK edition, first printing. 

This is a lovely very fine copy, with tight binding and the publisher's original purple 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. Rarely does a copy this clean and as new become available. Includes manuscript letter by Ursula K. Le Guin to reader. 

"No single work did more to upend the genre's conventions than The Left Hand of Darkness"--The Paris Review

Part of Le Guin's 'Hainish Cycle', all set in her fictional Hainish Universe, The Left Hand of Darkness is one of the first feminist Science Fiction novels--Le Guin identified as a feminist--and a pioneer work in its interrogation of gender fluidity and identity. Chosen by Harold Bloom as one of the novels of the 'Western canon', winner of both the Nebula Award (1969) and the Hugo Award (1970) for Best Novel. This is a rare opportunity to own a near-perfect copy, with the bonus of handwritten material, of one of the seminal works in the history of Science Fiction, by one of the authors who helped reformulate the genre.

£2,500