[Signed] [First Edition] An Artist Of The Floating World, UK Signed First Edition, First State Ishiguro, Kazuo [Used - Near Fine] [Hardcover]

Kazuo Ishiguro (1986) 'An Artist of the Floating World', UK first edition, first printing, and first state, published by Faber and Faber, printed by Butler and Tanner. Ishiguro's second novel which won him the Whitbread Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Provenance: Signed to us in person at a promotional event for The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent by Kazuo Ishiguro in March 2024 in London. Condition: a fine copy with the bear minimum of shelf wears. Page block edges clean, no prevous owner's scribbles, no stamps, no bookplates. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped protected my removable mylar. Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the most important and best regarded British novelists of the last four decades. He won the Booker Prize for 'The Remains of the Day' in 1989, and the Nobel Prize in 2017. His books are read in schools and for English degrees. A highly collectable author. First and Fine