An Artist of the Floating World

by Kazuo Ishiguro, born 1954

£50 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Faber and Faber, 1986. Modern literature FIRST EDITION, SECOND STATE. Octavo 23 x 15cm , pp. 2 ; 206. Black publisher's cloth to boards, gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £8.95 to front flap. Printed by Richard Clay rather than Butler and Tanner. Toning throughout leaves, especially margins and edges. Fine, as new. Considered a giant of world literature, Ishiguro has written a number of critically acclaimed

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