The Left Hand of Darkness

Overview:

  • Title: The Left Hand of Darkness
  • Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Year: 1980
  • ISBN-10: 0060125748
  • Publisher: Harper & Row
  • Price: $11.95
  • Pages: x+213
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Left Hand of Darkness
  • Notes:
    - On copyright page: "First Edition" (meaning the first Harper edition), printing number line: "80 81 82 83 84 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1", and "Designer: Ruth Markiewicz".
    - Month of publication from Locus #236 (August 1980). Also "0880" on front flap of jacket.
    - "Jacket design by Dan Sneberger" on back flap of jacket. Sneberger's signature visible on jacket art.
    - Le Guin's Introduction in this edition has printed signature "Ursula K. Le Guin / Portland, Oregon / 1976". There is no separate copyright for the Introduction, and nothing on book or jacket citing its source. Presumably it is the same intro first published in the July 1976 12th printing of the Ace paperback edition.