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New York, Harper & Row, 1974. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A near fine copy. Inscribed by the author 'To Alex / Ursula K Le Guin / 11 Xi 85'. The books additionally bears the ownership signature of Erland Anderson. Anderson was a poet and the husband of editor Susan Anderson, who with Vonda McIntyre, edited the anthology Beyond Equality. Winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula. An important text in the realm of Utopian fiction and Feminist SF - to which the book fits neither template happily. Spine a touch sunned, a slight reading lean, light bumping to the tips and some dustiness to the top of the block. Cover art by Fred Winkowski [11131, Hyraxia Books].

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a novel by American author Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness (the Hainish Cycle). It was first published in 1974 and is a tale of two planets, Urras and Anarres, and the lives of their inhabitants, focusing on the themes of anarchism, isolation, and society. The book's protagonist, Shevek, is a physicist from Anarres who challenges and explores the societal norms of both worlds.