The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
First UK edition, first printing (the true first) of Ishiguro's third novel, winner of the Book Prize for Fiction and basis for the acclaimed film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
London: Faber and Faber, 1989. Publisher's original black cloth, spine lettered in white; pp. (vi), 245. A fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket showing sunning to the spine, faintly to panels, and traces of shelfwear, protected in archival mylar.