Wizard of Earthsea, Hardcover (87 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first four books of the "Wizard of Earthsea" series, all 1st Editions, ALL flat-signed by Ursula Le Guin on the title pages. See photos. "Wizard of Earthsea" illustrated by Ruth Robbins, 1st Edition, 2nd printing; clean, unmarked hardcover; dust jacket slight fading at spine, small chip at head of spine. "Tombs of Atuan" 2nd Printing, 1972; illustrated by Gail Garraty; clean unmarked hardcover; dust jacket with small chips at corners; edgewear. "The Farthest Shore" 1st Printing, 1972, illustrated by Gail Garraty; clean, unmarked hardcover; front hinge weakening though intact; dust jacket bright, small chips at head and tail of spine. "Tehanu" Atheneum, 1990, 1st Printing; clean, unmarked hardcover; minor edgewear; dust jacket near fine. Email for more photos! This set has been the gem of my personal collection for 25 years, having met Ursula Le Guin and acquired the signatures in person. Ready to pass them along to the right person. Will throw in 1st Printings of "Tales of Earthsea" and "The Other Wind," which are in fine condition and are NOT signed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Illustrated by Ruth Robbins (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Small stains on top and bottom title page. Toning on spine. ; Second front end page personalized by Ursula K. Le Guin. ; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing corresponding to Currey's description of the Library Edition binding (no priority) with the vertical smudge to the title page, in accordance with Currey's description of the first printing of 6800 copies. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color that includes the "Library Edition $3.90" in the lower corner, but is clipped at the upper-right of the front flap with a short tear to bottom of front panel. A lovely copy in collector's condition. Includes an authentication letter from pioneering bibliographer L. W. Currey, along with a photocopy of a letter from Parnassus Press confirming first printing points.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Three Volumes. First UK editions, first impressions, published between 1971 to 1973 by Victor Gollancz. A highlight series of high fantasy. A Wizard of Earthsea: Original brown cloth with lettering to spine in gilt with green endpapers and paste-downs. A near fine book with light spotting to edges, but contents entirely clean otherwise. The original and unclipped dust jacket is also near fine with the slightest hint of fading to the spine panel, some marginal toning to verso and a few unobtrusive marks to top fore-edges. The Tombs of Atuan: Original blue cloth with lettering to spine in gilt with pale green endpapers and paste-downs. Light spotting to edges with a few spots to front and rear endpapers and paste-downs, else near fine in a near fine and unclipped dust jacket with some very moderate fading to spine panel and marginal toning to verso with a hint of rubbing to spine head, else near fine. The Farthest Shore: Original grey cloth with lettering to spine in gilt and purple map endpapers and paste-downs. Near fine with some spotting to edges in a near fine dust jacket with minor fading to the spine panel and marginal, light spotting to verso. A very attractive and uniquely well-preserved set.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. This copy is SIGNED by Ursula K. Le Guin on a laid in signature. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is in excellent shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with slight wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy SIGNED by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First trade edition, first printing of the classic novel by acclaimed science fiction and fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin. Contains the faint tell-tale "smudge line" running down the title page (from the "d" in "Wizard" to the "r" in "Press"--see photo). Consistent with the first trade edition, this copy contains an embossed illustration on the front cover and embossed lettering on the spine, and the back cover is free of embossing. Shortly after publication, this copy was purchased by the library system in Ursula Le Guin's hometown of Portland, Oregon. It entered into Multnomah County Library's circulation at Portland's Midland branch on April 15th, 1969 and remained in circulation until its recent donation to the Friends Library Store. This unique copy contains vintage Portland, Oregon library stamps (see photos). Slight warp to the spine. Dust jacket price-clipped and in Mylar. Pages clean and unmarked. The aqua-colored cloth boards are frayed on the bottom edges and slightly on top. Slight wear to binding but still sound. A wonderful piece of fantasy and library history.

First editions of each of the six novels in Le Guin's acclaimed Wizard of Earthsea series. Octavo, 6 volumes, original cloth. Each are fine in near fine to fine dust jackets. The Wizard of Earthsea is a second state and the dust jacket priced at $3.95. A Wizard of Earthsea with illustrations by Ruth Robbins; Tombs of Atuan and Farthest Shore with illustrations by Gail Garraty. An exceptional set. The Earthsea hexalogy, set in the archipelago of Earthsea, tells the story of Ged, a wizard's apprentice at a school of wizardry. Just as LeGuin was seemingly inspired by Tolkien, J.K. Rowling must have been influenced by this beautiful epic fantasy. Each book in the trilogy is an award winner. The Wizard of Earthsea received a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in 1969 and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1979. The Tombs of Atuan was a 1972 Newbery Honor Book, and the Farthest Shore received a National Book Award in 1973. George Slusser has described the series as a "work of high style and imagination", while Amanda Craig said that A Wizard of Earthsea was "the most thrilling, wise, and beautiful children's novel ever.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. This attractive dustjacket is in excellent shape, with imperceptible wear to spine ends. This ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET is rich in colors. The book is fresh, and the boards are sharp quite. The binding is tight, and the lettering on the spine is vibrant. The pages are clean with slight wear to the edges, and there is no writing or marks in the book. A lovely copy of this First Edition in collector's condition. We buy Le guin First Editions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Early printing lacking the jacket signed by the author on the title page. A very good copy with a large bookplate on the cover verso. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1973 1st editions of the original three books of the Earthsea series. 1. A Wizard of Earthsea, 2nd imp. 2. The Tombs of Atuan, 2nd imp. 3. The Farthest Shore 1st imp. Cloth [1. Brown, 2. Blue, 3, Purple], gilt titles to spines, 1&2 green endpapers, 3 Black map on purple endpapers. Unclipped pictorial dustjackets by David Smee. Condition: Very good books in very good djs. Slight fading to extremities of 1. Spotting to edges of text blocks. Matching owners name to front pastedown in 2&3. Pages clean and bright. Bindings firm. DJs with light sunning to spines. Now in removable plastic sleeves. Size: 8 x 5 inches / 20 x 13 cm. Combined weight: 945g.

Full Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Four volume set. 22 x 14 cm. Octavo. 205pp, 180pp, 259pp, 281pp. Bound into full leather with each book in a different color from blue to green. Gilt ship design, lettering, and foredges. 3 raised bands to spines, moire endpapers, silk ribbons. Illustrated with drawings by Ruth Robbins, frontispiece by Rebecca Guay in each volume. A few small scratches to the gilt foredges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. UK first edition, first printing. The book is in very good condition, with a very slight lean to the spine. It comes with the original dust jacket, price-clipped, spine slightly sunned and minor wear along the edges. Otherwise, a very bright and fresh copy.

6 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispieces, coloured plates, double-page plan in the text and endpaper maps; pictorial cloth heightened in gilt, backstrips lettered in brown and gilt, a near fine set in publisher's board slip-cases. The FS edition of this classic fantasy sequence comprises: A Wizard of Earthsea (2015); The Tombs of Atuan (2022); The Farthest Shore (2022); Tehanu (2023); Tales from Earthsea (2023); The Other Wind (2024). COMPLETE SETS OF FIRST PRINTINGS ARE VERY SCARCE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket and board spine ends are sunned, and edges are creased and nicked. Spine ends are bumped. Page block head is lightly foxed. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A Wizard of Earthsea is 3rd Printing; the other 5 books are 1st Printings. Brand new copies in slipcases.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 3 vols. First editions; second printings - all published in 1973. Hardcovers in dust jackets. Jackets to vol.1 and 2 price-clipped and sunned to spine. Vol. 3 with slight foxing to text block edges. Jacket design by David Smee. *** A very attractive set of the original Earthsea trilogy, in uniform jackets. All second printings. A Wizard of Earthsea was originally published as a paperback original by Parnassus in the USA and Penguin in the UK; the subsequent volumes were first published in hardcovers by Gollancz. The volumes were published with short intervals between 1971 and 1973. This second printing was published in 1973.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Scarce First Edition/First State with faint vertical smudge on the title page. An ex-library copy with significant wear. In aqua/blue cloth with debossed black illustration on front board and black to type on spine which is slightly cocked. Rubbing through cloth with some fraying at top and bottom board and spine ends. Tape shadows/residue to tops and bottoms of same. Stains around top of spine and to top of front board. Corners a little soft. Several sticker paper/scars with some rippling to ffep(and page following) where library stickers and pocket were. Library numbers to top of same, 3 tiny pen marks to title page and number to copyright page as well. Small 1/2 inch split to top of front hinge and some numbers to ffep and copyright page. Stamp to top page ends with some soiling and another sticker scar to rear pastedown. Jacket is unclipped with correct '11up $3.95' showing. Bottom of front flap clipped which appears common to this state. Tape residue shadows to top of spine inside and out with 1/2 inch split to top of front spine crease and a couple chips/nicks to head of spine as well. One 1 1/2 inch split to bottom of front spine crease and smaller embedded 1/2 inch split towards bottom of rear flap crease. Paper scarring and sticker residue to bottom of spine where call letters were. Small chips to bottom corners and a few edge nicks. 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.191; [1]; 160; 206; [2]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, map endpapers. Dust-jacket designed by Tudor Humphries, with printed price of £4.45 net to front flap. Textblock marginally toned. Binding very lightly handled. Dust-jacket shows very well, bright and unfaded to all panels, very light handling, some shallow indention from pen strokes. A particularly fresh copy. Fine. An omnibus edition containing the three constituent parts of the Earthsea saga.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Scarce First Edition/First Printing with faint vertical smudge on the title page. A reinforced ex-library copy that was rebound for the library market with stamps to top page ends, front pastedown and title page. Due slip to front pastedown as well with pocket to ffep. Numbers to title page and rfep with sticker and bindery stamp to rear pastedown. Some tape shadows/residue to tops and bottoms of boards and endpapers. A few spots stains to page ends. Interior fairly clean and binding solid. Jacket is present, but price-clipped and laminated with some edgewear/rubbing, tape residue and call sticker to bottom of spine. Bottom of front flap clipped as well which appears to be quite common. 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First Japanese Edition of the classic which later helped inspire Studio Ghibli's Tales of Earthsea(2006). In blue pictorial laminated boards with blue marker ribbon as issued. Some light wear to edges and spine ends. Corners sharp, interior clean and Binding solid. In cardstock slipcase with wear to opening and edges/corners. Some creasing to spine and scuffing to panels.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. 4th printing. Former library copy. Jacket in Good- condition with minor tears. Book in Fair condition. Tape residue on covers / inside covers. School sticker on flyleaf. Typical library markings present, library pocket on rear flyleaf. Library notations on Title page. Overall book in clean condition. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Fri.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st Edition 1977 An Omnibus Volume Containing A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, and The Farthest Shore. Book is very good++ and bright. Feint and very slight indentation to front board. Contents good. Light toning to page edges. The wrapper is near fine and bright. Small area of edge rubbing. More digital images can be taken upon request. Ref16624.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. David Smee (illustrator). 1973 harcdover with dust jacket. The book is in very good condition. clean, square and tight. prev owners name on ffep. The dust jacket is also very good condition. clean and bright. spine slightly faded. see photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A Fair 8vo Library Edition hardcover in a Good dust jacket. 1968 copyright by the author; Library Edition stamp on the dust jacket's front flap and stamped in black on rear cover. Ex-library with the usual treatments on the first and last couple of leafs and on the dust jacket. Some staining on the pages top and fore edges that bleeds into the margins of a small number of pages but the interior pages otherwise appear clean, complete and securely bound. The decorated cloth-covered boards are well rubbed--i.e., exposed--on the bottom edge and in the boards' upper spine and fore edge corners. The dust jacket is in a clear jacket cover that is taped to the paste-downs. Ex-library treatments are on the dust jacket's spine tail and near the top edge in the rear. Near or adjacent to the dust jacket's top edge there is also some discoloration and a couple of small blank white labels. Still, the dust jacket's front and rear illustrations look sharp.

First edition, first printing with these illustrations. Publisher's original brown illustrated cloth with bronze and silver titles to the spine, housed in the brown paper covered slipcase. Illustrated throughout in colour, with a frontispiece and six full page plates by David Lupton. Map endpapers. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine, structurally sound slipcase. The first volume in Ursula Le Guin's multi-award winning fantasy series 'The Earth Sea Cycle'. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Illustrated by David Lupton (illustrator). Reprint. Introduced by David Mitchell. Fine in lightly rubbed, near fine publisher's slipcase. Illustrated cloth boards in publisher's slipcase.

Condition: NEAR FINE. First edition, second or third printings per Currey. A very early novel by Le Guin, a coming of age story which is both a fantasy classic and a classic of young adult literature, illustrated with maps and drawings by Ruth Robbins. A later printing per Currey without the smudge on the title page and with a printed illustration on the front cove, plain rear cover. However, although Currey specifically states no linen hinges for these printings, this copy does have the white linen hinges used in the library binding on the first printing. 205 pp, Near fine in light turquoise cloth (a bit of fraying to the front edges of the boards near the corners, but overall tight and clean) no dust jacket .

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 3rd Edition. Fine in a fine slipcase, no visible wear to the boards, the book itself is in fantastic condition with tight binding and clean pages. All our books are second hand and as so may have slight wear, creasing or scuffing. They have each been examined and are complete to the best of our knowledge. If you require more detail on condition, please do not hesitate to contact us for additional photos and description.



Hardback. Hardback. 206pp. Introduced by David Mitchell. Illustrated by David Lupton. Bound in buckram, printed and blocked with a design by David Lupton. Maps to endpapers. Brown slipcase. Very clean, bright and neat. Fine copy in near fine slipcase Fine copy in near fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by David Lupton (illustrator). Introduction by David Mitchell. First edition thus. Fine in an about fine (one slightly bumped corner) slipcase.; 206 pages.