LE GUIN, Ursula K.

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The Left Hand of Darkness. First hardback edition, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Jim, with all good wishes, Ursula K. Leguin". A pioneering text in feminist science fiction and Le Guin's first major success, the novel won both the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1970, and in 1987 was ranked by Locus magazine as the second most important science fiction novel after Frank Herbert's Dune. The fourth book in the Hainish cycle follows the adventures of a solitary interstellar envoy on the icy planet "Winter" among its ambisexual inhabitants. This hardback edition appeared shortly after the Ace paperback. It should not be confused with the Book Club Edition, which has a gutter code on page 213 and "Book Club Edition" printed on the front flap.

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