The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro, Signed (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Nr Fine. 1st Edition. Glossy illustrated dust-jacket, unmarked but very lightly sunned along the spine. Book bound in black cloth with white titles, in mint condition with signature only to the title page. A beautifully preserved book. With a Waterstones "Signed First Edition" wrap around inserted. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 245, [1] pages. In Good plus condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Light blue-gray spine with dark blue and red lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is clipped, has mild shelving wear, bending wear along the head fore corners, stains on the rear cover, and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have moderate age-toning along the head and tail edges, bumping along the front head fore corner, and mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has embossing on the second front end-page and half-title, moderate age-toning on the front end-page, two small open tears on the front end-page, stains on the front end-page and pastedown, mild wear along the edges, stains along the edges, and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Kazuo Ishiguro on the title page. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. 1390894. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American edition stated, 1st prtg. grey boards, blue quarter-cloth spine, unclipped illus white dg, exc unread cond; signed by author on title pg, signature only, 245 pp. 6"-8.5". author's 3rd novel. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First US edition, first printing. Book is near-fine with mild bumps at the spine. Book corners are sharp. Dust jacket is near-fined and protected in Brodart cover. Book is unmarked, unclipped, and signed by the author on a publisher's bookplate affixed to the half-title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 245, [1] pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Light blue-gray spine with dark blue and red lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$18.95", has mild shelving wear, stains on the front and rear covers, and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges and mild wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has a stain on page 87, mild wear along the edges, and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Kazuo, Ishiguro on the title page. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. 1390892. Special Collections.

Hardcover. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 245, [1] pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Light blue-gray spine with dark blue and red lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$18.95", has mild shelving wear, stains on the rear cover, and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges, light bumping along the head fore corners, and mild wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has stains on page [1] and the rear end-page, mild wear along the edges, stains along the edges, and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Kazuo, Ishiguro on the title page. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 6. 1390890. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Book & Jacket, First Edition US First Print, Signed in protective cover, no flaws. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st US Edition 1989. Signed inscription to title page by the author. Book and wrapper are fine. A very good unread example. More digital images can be taken upon request. RefA1234. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st US Edition/4th Printing (Nov. 1989). SIGNED Kazuo Ishiguro on a bookplate affixed to title page; "To Mary, Kazuo Ishiguro". $18.95 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. From the wonderful 1993 film version of novel: Attached to front end page is a B&W photo SIGNED by ANTHONY HOPKINS (played 'James Stevens'). Attached to half-title page is a card SIGNED by EMMA THOMPSON (played 'Miss Kenton'); and another handwritten note-card SIGNED by RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA (wrote the screenplay for the film). . Laid-in is a color photo SIGNED and inscribed by PETER VAUGHN (played 'Mr. Stevens Sr.'); and a card SIGNED by JAMES FOX (played 'Lord Darlington'). (BONUS: Comes with a unsigned 1st US Printing hardcover copy of Ishiguro's "When We Were Orphans"). Also laid-in is original Philadelphia Inquirer story on Ishiguro winning the Noble Prize. Unique copy for the Ishiguro--Remains of the Day fan or collector. NOTE; No international orders for this book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine folio edition hardback hardback - first printing thus - no dustjacket (as issued) - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY KAZUO ISHIGURO - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi (last blank)], 245. Black cloth boards, lettered in white to spine. Signed by Author to title page. Tiny bump to bottom corner of rear board, tip fold of dustwrapper covering it sporting minuscule coating loss with a thin irregular 1" stripe - also showing some loss - running alongside it (see photo). The spine itself is entirely unfaded. A sharp, collector's copy. His third book and first with an English setting. 1989 Booker Prize Award Winner, with David Lodge, the chairman of the judges remarking it's "a cunningly structured and beautifully paced performance". "After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?" The high price paid by a 'perfect' English butler in interwar England, who places duty above his own feelings. An exploration of emotional repression and deference to authority through a profession constituting the apogée of self-effacement and abnegation. The central character, Stevens, was partly inspired by Tom Waits' emotional rendition of his song "Ruby's Arms": "Waits sings [it] with cathartic magnificence, and you feel a lifetime of tough-guy stoicism crumbling in the face of overwhelming sadness. I heard this and reversed a decision I'd made, that Stevens would remain emotionally buttoned up right to the bitter end. I decided that at just one point. his rigid defence would crack, and a hitherto concealed tragic romanticism would be glimpsed." The source for the 1993 Merchant/Ivory film starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson and Christopher Reeve which was nominated for eight Academy Awards. In 2008, The Times named Ishiguro among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945," while in 2017 the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature. "An intricate and dazzling novel." -The New York Times. [Shaffer, Brian W. Reading the Novel in English 1950-2000. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2005; The Guardian Book Club, 6 December 2014] 464. signed.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Fine in near fine slightly spine faded dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Bound in boards with dust jacket. Light edge wear; jacket faded. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Near fine in fine unfaded dustjacket which is protected by a slightly spine faded variant dustjacket with differences to the rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine - On Book, Signed below name on title page, but no, rubbing, owner marks or toning to pages. Near Fine + -On Jacket- clip, else Fine without tears,chips or fade. Signed Booker Prize winner in 1989. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. SIGNED (inscribed) by author on a bookplate affixed to front end page. Knopf Book Club Edition. 213 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Vintage International Edition (Sept. 1990) softcover. SIGNED (inscribed) by author on a bookplate affixed to dedication page: "To Mary- Kazuo Ishiguro". lower spine lightly rubbed and faded. Booker Prize winner. (Bonus: Comes with a unsigned hardcover copy of Ishiguro's novel "The Buried Giant"). Signed by Author.

Condition: Good. 1993. Seventh printing. 245 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial paper covers; seventh printing of movie tie-in edition. Signed by the author on title page with dedication 'to Wendy'. Minor foxing and noticeable tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, which are also mildly scratched. Some very small stains to reverse of covers. Binding remains firm. Pen inscription to half title page. Paper covers have light edge-wear and corner curling with mild scuffing overall. Visible reading creases to joints. Spine has minor rolling and creasing with a small blue sticker.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, inscribed by the author to the title page: 'To Orna, Very best, Kazuo Ishiguro 4th May '90'. Faber paperback 1990 reprint. Book is in near fine condition with clean and bright front cover, no reading crease or knocks to spine; no creases to covers bar a very slight top corner crease to rear cover; two patches of abrasion on rear cover, sunned spine. Light toning to text block as expected, but text block is clean, internally very clean and unmarked in any way. Fresh. A lovely copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Nobel-prize winning novel by British-Japanese writer Kazuo Ishiguro (1954, Nagasaki) that tells the story of a butler. The book was translated by Tsuchiya Masao (1944, born) in 1990. Pocket size, signed by the author. Text in Japanese. 15,7x10,7. 365 pp. Pages clean. Signature in black ink on the title page. Soft cover. Original obi and dust jacket, chipped. Fine condition overall. Signed by Author(s).

1st edition. Hardcover. Very fine in very fine dustjacket. Signed by the author on a card affixed to the title page. A really lovely first impression of the Nobel Prize-winner's most famous work, his Booker Prize-winning novel made into an Oscar-nominated movie.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on title-page. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket. The story of an English butler who reflects on his years of service and a past relationship with the housekeeper, Miss Kenton. The novel was awarded the Booker Prize in 1989 and was adapted into a critically acclaimed film in 1993, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. A fine copy, in near fine jacket. Signed. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, Faber & Faber, 1989. Signed by the author to the title page. A largely pristine and unread copy, in a particularly fine jacket. The black cloth boards are unhandled and unmarked; entirely fresh. Appears new. Corners are sharp, boards entirely sharp. White author name, book title and publisher name to spine in bright white lettering. Lightest of creases to the spine foot, possibly a production issue as the spine tips remain firm. Entirely unmarked text block; lightest of toning to the top edge of text block. Internally beautiful and as fresh as the day it was published. The jacket is particularly bright and handsome and not price-clipped, with a fresh sheen. Light crease to the inner flap (see the photo). A gorgeous copy; very hard to find in this condition. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine uncorrected proof of the first Canadian edition inscribed by Kazuo Ishiguro on the title page dated 3/10/89. Title and author's surname penciled on the otherwise blank spine "The Remains of Day (sic) -- Ishiguro". From the library of a noted Canadian Collector. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Some toning to front cover. Bumping to spine ends, corners. A very small amount of general wear. Overall an exceedingly scarce inscribed advanced reading copy, in near fine condition. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed to the title page. Fine copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover: Condition: Fine: First edition, first impression; very clean and straight boards with bright spine letters and with firm spine tips and hard corners; signed by the author without dedication to printed card inserted beneath the title page, repeating the ruled title box text in the same typeface and signed beneath (see images); very clean and tight text block with no spotting or browning. Dust jacket condition: Fine: not price clipped and with no fading to the spine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 'The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro. Faber & Faber, London. 1989 first UK edition first printing. 8vo, (222 x 143mm), black cloth, silver lettering to spine, dust-jacket unclipped, half-title, signed by the author to title page, 245pp. The Nobel Prize-winning author's work received the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989, the film adaptation released in 1993 starred Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson and was nominated for eight Academy Awards. A very good copy in very good first issue dustwrapper, signed to title page. signed copy of Ishiguro's masterpiece. Signed by Author(s).

8vo., First Edition, some mild toning to free endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in white, fore-edge very lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Near fine copy of the Man Booker 1989 prizewinner, one of the most highly regarded novels of the late twentieth century. The basis of James Ivory's hugely successful feature film (1993) starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

London: Faber and Faber. 1989. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in white; pp. 245, a fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, a little sunned on the spine. First edition, signed by the author to fly-leaf. The book was highly regarded among post-war British novels and describes, from the perspective of the butler, the events at Darlington Hall in the 1920s and 1930s. The theme of the decline of the British aristocracy can be linked to the 1911 Parliament Act, which reduced its power, and to inheritance tax increases imposed after World War I which forced the break-up of many estates that had been passed down for generations. The film adaptation of the novel, made in 1993 and starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, was nominated for eight Academy Awards.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. A Fine copy in like jacket. Signed by the author directly on the title page. Book with a previous owner's gift inscription on the front paste-down, generally obscured by the jacket flap. Dust jacket also in Fine condition, but with a touch of fading to the spine. "A lack of restraint is perhaps the best response to Ishiguro's novel, which is the tale of a man so burdened by propriety that he lets the love of his life slip through his fingers. Mr. Stevens is chief of staff at an English stately home; as the novel opens, in the summer of 1956, he is set to undertake a motoring trip to visit Miss Kenton, a housekeeper who left 20 years earlier to get married.Unreliable narrators are ten a penny in fiction. Ishiguro, instead, likes to give us unwitting narrators: speakers who remain trapped in self-preserving fictions, mysteries even to themselves. Bit by bit you learn to look for the real emotions running beneath the buffed surface of the prose.The Remains of the Day does that most wonderful thing a work of literature can do: it makes you feel you hold a human life in your hands. When you reach the end, it really does seem as if you've lost a friend" (Beech). An incredible novel encompassing the wide-ranging effects of class on love, relationships, and self-knowledge, Nobel Prize winner Ishiguro earned the Booker Prize for this work in 1989. It was soon after adapted into a film starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Dame Emma Thompson. Fine in Fine dust jacket.