An Artist of the Floating World

Author: ISHIGURO, Kazuo (born 1954)
Title: An Artist of the Floating World
Publication: London: Faber and Faber, 1986

Description: [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION, SECOND STATE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2]; 206. Black publisher's cloth to boards, gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £8.95 to front flap. Printed by Richard Clay rather than Butler and Tanner. Toning throughout leaves, especially margins and edges. Minor bumping to top of dust-jacket. A near fine copy. Considered a giant of world literature, Ishiguro has written a number of critically acclaimed novels. His An Artist of the Floating World won the 1986 Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Seller ID: 63713

Subject: Literature



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