Artist Floating World by Ishiguro Kazuo, First Edition (82 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Condition: Good. First Edition. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardbound in unclipped dust jacket.

First British edition. Hardcover. 206 pages. Second issue printed by Richard Clay. Ishiguro's well received second novel for which he won the Whitbread Prize. Ishiguro went on to win the Booker Prize for "Remains of the Day" and the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as well. A near fine copy with the usual toning to the pages and in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to the bottom of the front panel.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1986. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo (22.5cm); illustrated dust jacket with $15.95 price intact; brown boards and black cloth spine with gilt lettering; [ii],206pp. Jacket is crisp with a bit of dust-soiling and a tiny tear at tail. Boards are square, with bumping at spine ends. Prior owner's birthday gift inscription dated 1989 under illustration on dedication page; small stray pen dot below page number on last page, else interior unmarked. Binding is sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first print. Second issue, with Richard Clay as the printer. Very clean black cloth boards and sharp corners; spine foot and top of spine still firm. Spotting to top edge of text block. Text block is toned. Internally clean, bar a small mark on the front pastedown endpaper (pictured). Pages otherwise unmarked, but toned. Jacket is price-clipped. Foxing and spotting to top edge of jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition, First Printing. The dustjacket has an almost invisible 1/8" closed tear at the top of the rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition. 8vo, black cloth His second novel. Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A UK 1st Edition and 1st Impression hardback book identified on the copyright page with no further printings mentioned. Second state printed by Richard Clay. - The book is in very good condition with black boards with gold title to spine. Slight push to top and bottom of spine and slight sunning to page block. Erased pencil price to front free end paper. - Dust jacket is in near fine condition and has not been price clipped but no price is shown. Jacket is clean with no sunning to spine. Slight ruffling to top and bottom.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover in black cloth with gilt titles to spine in Fine condition, unclipped dustwrapper with very slight shelfwear but otherwise in Fine condition. First edition, pp 206.

first edition. fine book, near fine jacket couple edge slits.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. Bound in publisher's original quarter black cloth and tan paper boards, title stamped in gilt on spine.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 1986. 1st edition US. Hardback with DW. Clean boards with gilt lettering to spine. Wrapper slightly worn and ownership inscription to front end paper, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. First printing of authors second book. Unmarked, tight and square. Faint P stamp to top page edges along with a few faint foxing spots. Price intact jacket has a nick at head of spine. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. A flawless copy of the Nobel Laureate's second book. 1st US edition, as new in similar dw. Included is a program from the 92nd Street Y in New York from a reading by Ishiguro and Edna O'Brien in 1995, SIGNED by Ishiguro on the front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. FIRST. A FINE FIRST IN DJ. First edition, first (Tanner & Butler) ISSUE First edition, first issue (printed by Butler and Tanner). A fine copy in fine dust jacket. *An Artist of the Floating World* was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award.

Cloth and Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. The first American edition, published by G.P. Putnams in 1986.Kaz's follow up effort to ' A Pale View of the Hills '. Both book and dust jacket are fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Hische, Jessica (illustrator). First Edition. First printing of this title in the Penguin Drop Cap series, which is a series of 26 titles - one for each letter of the alphabet based on the author's last name initial. Each letter is designed by Jessica Hische and featured on the front cover. This copy is a bright green color, in fine condition, with no dust jacket as issued, with a stylized "I" on the front cover. This title is the author's second book, originally issued in 1986, and reissued here for this series. Although not called for, and uncommon as such, this copy is signed by the author on the title page (signature only). Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. First edition. 8vo. 206pp. Black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. First issue, printed by Butler & Tanner Ltd. [Second issue printed by Richard Clay]. A trifle spotted to textblock edges and d/j verso, else Fine. Lacks usual tanning, which blights this title. Author's second novel. Winner of the 1986 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, subsequently won for The Remains of the Day in 1989. A portrait of the artist as an ageing man. Masuji Ono once put his art at the service of WWII Japanese militarism. In the aftermath of defeat, he finds solace in memories of his youth and of the 'floating world' - the nocturnal realm of pleasure. Recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world". "The kind [of novel] that stretches the reader's awareness, teaching him to read more perceptively." -Kathryn Morton, New York Times Book Review. 389.

Hardcover. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 206 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with light pink lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut ">$15.95", has mild shelving wear, closed tears along the rear head edge, stains on the rear cover, and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have a small open tear along the rear head fore corner. Textblock has mild wear along the edges. Signed flat by Kazuo Ishiguro on the title page. Shelved in Case 6. 1390917. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. ; 8.8 X 5.6 X 1.5 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Hische, Jessica (illustrator). 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION hardback issued without a jacket. Part of the Penguin Drop Caps series, issued in the US. This series features one book for every letter in the alphabet, and each is in a coloured livery. The complete set looks like a wonderful rainbow on the shelf. The page edges are also sprayed. Hard to find in the US as first printings, and almost impossible to find in the UK. NEW UNREAD FIRST EDITION THUS. Language: eng.

Hardcovers. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first prnt. Second issue (printed by Richard Clay Ltd.). Signed by Ishiguro on the title page. Beginning page toning, backstrip ends lightly pushed; dustjacket with tiny wrinkles on the spine ends. Unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustajcket with an archival cover. Ishiguro's second novel. Whitbread Prize winner 1986. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A tight clean copy, but one has to protest to Faber & Faber; how dare they issue a significant hardback first edition and decided to use such CHEAP PULP PAPER? This is a true first edition, the binding is tight, the jacket perfect, unclipped, and protected. But the text block is embrowned! A wonderful book, still among his very finest works. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. First Edition. Lightly bumped top front tip; paper somewhat tanned; else a fine copy in fresh, fine, mylar-protected dustjacket, SIGNED on title page by author. Nobel prize winner's second book. This copy is first edition, second issue (printed by Richard Clay Ltd.). Whitbread Book of the Year; Booker shortlist. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine GERMAN first edition, first printing hardback - in an fine unclipped dustjacket fitted with a removable clear mylar sleeve - 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).

First edition, Butler & Tanner printing. Signed by the author. Fine, but with inscription on front endpaper, in fine dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Ishiguro s second novel. First issue, with printing by Butler & Tanner. Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Fine in dustjacket with light crease along upper edge of front panel, else fine. Signed by Ishiguro on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS ABOUT FINE WITH JUST A TRACE OF WEAR AT THE HEEL OF THE SPINE PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is PAPERBACK.

First Edition; First Printing. Fine in lightly rubbed near fine dust jacket dust jacket with shallow crease to lower front edge, in mylar cover.