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The Remains of the Day
$3,500.00
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Faber & Faber: London, 1989. First Edition.
Lovely copy of this Booker Prize winning novel, the third from future Nobel Prize for Literature winner, basis for movie of same name starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
Boldly signed by the author to title page. Accompanied by a bookmark promoting upcoming Booker Prize announcement, also signed by Ishiguro.
Author’s signature has changed over time, and this example as well as the bookmark appear to be contemporaneous with the novel’s publication. Very scarce and desirable thus.
A fine copy in fine dust wrapper.
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