The Remains of the Day.

ISHIGURO, Kazuo.

Item Number: 125349

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth, top edge red. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the titles page, “To Jack, Kazuo Ishiguro.” Additionally signed three times by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd on the front panel of the jacket, title page, and rear flap of the dust jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Author photograph by Nigel Parry.

The same subtlety and grace, and the same slow bloom of revelation with which Kazuro Ishiguro evoked his native Japan in An Artist of the Floating World (winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year award for 1986), abound here in The Remains of the Day, set in his adopted England. But the specific England of this wonderfully offbeat and beautifully realized novel is the insular, fading world of the perfect English butler. The novel received the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989. A film adaptation of the novel, made in 1993 and starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, was nominated for eight Academy Awards.