The Art of Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in 1969.

Error creating thumbnail: File missing First edition, Ace Science Fiction Special 47800. Cover art by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon. A strong thread of cover illustrations show dual image. Here, it could be two people -- Genly Ai and Estraven -- or the dual nature of the Gethenians.	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Walker & Co., 1969, hardcover. Cover artist, Jack Gaughan. First hardcover edition. [1] An early hardback cover, prefiguring much of the cover art of the late 20th and early 21st centuries with its emphasis on a minimalist blue and white landscape.	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ace Paperbacks. Ace 47800B or 478008. Unverified but possibly the 1972 Ace cover by Josh Kirby. An outlier among covers, with the imagery evocative of flames, and a strongly masculine face -- Genly Ai's, perhaps? The Promethean imagery also does not seem particularly apt -- presumably, a reference to the Gethenians' fears about what Genly Ai might be bringing them.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Panther Science Fiction edition	MacDonald Science Fiction edition	Presses Pocket, #5191 (1989). ISBN 2-266-02843-X. French translation by Jean Bailhache, as La main gauche de la nuit. An unusual treatment; possibly the spaceship that brought Genly Ai to Gethen, or perhaps one of the buildings on Gethen?
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Walker 25th Anniversary Edition, 1994. Art by Alex Ebel. See ISFDB. A popular paperback cover -- note the Janus-like figure referring to the Gethenians' dual nature.	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gollancz SF Masterworks edition. ISBN 0-575-07219-9. Cover by Tim White. See ISFDB.	Science Fiction Book Club 50th Anniversary Collection edition (2004); #15. ISBN 0-7394-4881-1. Cover by Bob Eggleton. See ISFDB.
Ace, 1991. ISBN 0-441-47812-3. See ISFDB.		Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Little, Brown (UK) 2009 edition. ISBN 9781841496061.