The Dispossessed.

LE GUIN, Ursula K.

Item Number: 29053

New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

First edition of this Nebula and Hugo Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Ursula Le Guin on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Gerald Jonas, writing in The New York Times, said that "Le Guin's book, written in her solid, no-nonsense prose, is so persuasive that it ought to put a stop to the writing of prescriptive Utopias for at least 10 years". Theodore Sturgeon praised The Dispossessed as "a beautifully written, beautifully composed book", saying "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."