The Left Hand of Darkness
$4,800 · Offered by Biblio
Signed
New York: Walker & Company, 1969. Book Club Edition. Very Good. Book club edition. Association copy signed by Ursula K. LeGuin on the front free endpaper and inscribed to her friends Lindy and Tony Wolk, a manicule pointing to a penciled price of 35 cents. The text has been thoroughly annotated by Tony Wolk in multiple inks. [vi], 218 pp. Bound in publisher's blue leatherette boards lettered in black on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with lean to binding and moderate wear to extremities including 3/4 inch split to upper end of rear joint; binding starting at pp. 25 and 157. Portland State University professor Tony Wolk and his wife Lindy decided to invite Ursula K. Le Guin over for dinner after reading this novel. They became fast friends, and Wolk co-taught writing and literature classes with Le Guin several times over the next three decades. A charming copy of the novel that made its author famous, read and marked with a scholarly eye by a friend who taught it.
- Publisher: Walker & Company
- Year: 1969
- Edition: Book Club Edition
- Binding: unknown
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