An Artist of the Floating World

London: Faber & Faber, (1986). First edition, 1st impression. 8vo. 206 pp. Original black cloth-covered boards, stamped in gold, in original unclipped (£8.95) dust-jacket. Light edge wear with some handling and rubbing wear to gloss. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Light wear to edges and corners, light curling to spine ends. Pages toned. Interior is clean and unmarked sans for previous owner’s name penned to ffep.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“Iain Maloney listed An Artist of the Floating World as an essential novel for Japanophiles. Robert McCrum ranked it the 94th greatest novel ever written. The novel was shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for the same year. It was a nominee for ALA best books for young adults. The Nobel Foundation, which awarded Ishiguro the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, noted in its biography of the author that An Artist of the Floating World was the work that made him "a highly visible young writer".