LE GUIN, Ursula K.

£2,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

A Wizard of Earthsea. First edition, with the publisher's faint vertical smudge on the title page, not present in later printings. Writing for The Guardian, David Mitchell noted that A Wizard of Earthsea is "one of literature's best-written fantasy worlds".This copy is from the trade issue; there was also a library issue, in a variant binding with text on the rear cover and reinforced inner hinges. The same jacket was used for both, the library price clipped from the trade jacket and vice versa. The two issues were published simultaneously.

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