Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea

Overview:

  • Title: Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
  • Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Year: 2019
  • ISBN-10: 9781473223592
  • Publisher: Gollancz
  • Price: £14.99
  • Pages: xvi+281
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
  • Notes:
    • Subtitled "The Fourth Book of Earthsea" on the title page.
    • Given on the copyright page: ISBN (Hardback) 978-1-473-22359-2; ISBN (eBook) 978-1-473-20848-3.
    • First printing by numberline: "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2".
    • Actual pagination is i–xvi, 1-281, with unnumbered 282–288 being adverts and blanks. None of the prelims are numbered. Author's map is on viii–ix. A colour illustration is tipped in between xii and xiii (contents).
    • A limitation page is tipped in between iv and v (title), stating "This special edition of Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin, signed by the Illustrator, Charles Vess, is limited to 100 copies of which this is number __/100" with Vess' signature below, then "Published by Gollancz, London, October 2019."
    • Price from publisher's barcode sticker on the back of the verification copy.
    • Dark red boards with gold foil.
    • Back cover has in foil "'"I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world."'"