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Le Guin, Ursula.
The Tombs of Atuan.
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1972
Stock Code: 14924
First British edition, published one year after the first American. Octavo, pp., 159, [1], double-page map within text. Publisher’s unclipped pictorial jacket. Publisher’s midnight blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine, mint green end-papers. Small ownership inscription in blue ink to front free end-paper. Spine panel of jacket slightly faded. Cloth and gilt bright. Contents clean, bright, and fresh. A near-fine copy in like jacket. The second installment in the Earthsea Trilogy, the series of novels that established Le Guin as one of the greatest fantasy writers of all time, and a pioneer of speculative fiction for young adults, ‘one of the great American writers and a visionary artist whose work will long endure’ (Oates). £425.00