The Tombs of Atuan

Overview:

  • Title: The Tombs of Atuan
  • Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Year: 2019
  • ISBN-10: 9781473223578
  • Publisher: Gollancz
  • Price: £14.99
  • Pages: xviii+197
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Tombs of Atuan
  • Notes:
    • Subtitled "The Second Book of Earthsea" on the title page.
    • First printing by numberline: "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2"
    • Given on the copyright page: ISBN (Hardback) 978-1-473-22357-8; ISBN (eBook) 978-1-473-20846-9.
    • Actual pagination is i–xviii, 1-197, with unnumbered 198–206 being adverts and blanks. Of the prelims, only xvii–xviii are numbered. Author's maps are on xiv–xv. A colour illustration is tipped in between xii and xiii (contents).
    • A limitation page is tipped in between ii and iii (it should have been between iv and v, the title), stating "This special edition of The Tombs of Atuan 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.
    • Burgundy boards with gold foil.
    • Back cover has in foil "'Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed'"