Threshold 
By Ursula K. Le Guin
 
First UK edition, first impression: London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1980. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page.
 
Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the original pictorial dust jacket.
 
The cloth remains fresh and unfaded. The contents are crisp and unmarked, with a touch of softening to spine ends, else fine.
 
The colours of the price-clipped dust jacket, featuring attractive artwork by Alan Cracknell, remain strong and unfaded. An attractive example.
 
Inscribed by the author on the title page, “To John Baxter / Ursula K. Le Guin.” Baxter was the Australian science fiction writer, journalist and film-maker, best known for his work on genre cinema and speculative fiction.
 
Threshold is the British edition, under an altered title, of the novel first published in the United States earlier the same year as The Beginning Place. One of Le Guin’s most psychologically subtle works, exploring refuge, liminality, and moral responsibility, it occupies a distinctive place within her fantasy canon. Signed copies of the UK edition, particularly with association to a fellow genre writer, are uncommon.