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. See ISFDB. 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 (1977); ISBN 0-586-03641-5. See [1].	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?	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Ace (ISBN 0-441-47809-3); Walker 25th Anniversary Edition, 1994. Art by Alex Ebel. See ISFDB; ISFDB. A popular paperback cover -- note the Janus-like figure referring to the Gethenians' dual nature.	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Orbit, 1986. ISBN 0-7088-8081-9. Cover by Tim White. See ISFDB.	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 Ace, 2000. ISBN 0-441-47812-3. Design by Alex Ebel. See ISFDB.		Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Little, Brown (UK) 2009 edition. ISBN 9781841496061.