Buy this book on-line Ishiguro, Kazuo : The Remains of the DayAlfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989 ISBN 9780394573434
Fine copy in fine dust jacket, 8vo, 245 pp. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Ishiguro, Kazuo : The Remains of the Day. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. ISHIGURO, Kazuo : The Remains of the Day1989
Faber and Faber, London. 1989. First edition. Hardback with DW. 2 tiny spots to top edge of pages o/w contents are clean and fresh. The wrapper spine is sunned and has a vertical crease to it, it is also very lightly foxed internally o/w a lovely copy. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of ISHIGURO, Kazuo : The Remains of the Day. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. ISHIGURO**, KAZUO: : The Remains of the DayLONDON.FABER & FABER,1989. ISBN 0571153100.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with capitalised,black-lettered author name and other black-lettered title within a pale tan rectangle; spine/backstrip unusually without sunning/fading and with similarly coloured+ lettered author+title as front and publisher's black-lettered+illustrated colophon,to foot of same,rear panel with pale tan background and a single black line bordered vertical oblong with story synopsis with and jacket photograph credit.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present - and again unsually - virtually scoring /indent free.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips, appears unread,other than my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked white ink lettered spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,3-245pp [paginated] includes a Prologue,6 chronological time-frame sections covering 6 days; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,a Prologue's and individual chronological sections' separator pages,and to the rear 4pp blanks.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's 30+ year-old age.It really is an exceptional example for brightness,cleanliness and lack of detracting faults.A really exceptional copy,in an unusually superb grade and condition and a welcome addition to Ishiguro's canon.
It is the summer of 1956.Stevens,an ageing butler,has embarked on a rare holiday - a six-day motoring trip through the West Country.But his travels are disturbed by the memories of a lifetime in service to the late Lord Darlington,and most of all by the increasingly painful recollection of his friendship with the housekeeper,Miss Kenton.For the first time in his life,Stevens is forced to wonder if all his actions were for the best after all. . .
Author's third novel,and Booker Prize winner,1989.His 2nd novel,'An Artist of the Floating World' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1986 - see my book ID rja1079123 for a UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
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