ISHIGURO, Kazuo. The Buried Giant. London: Faber and Faber, 2015.
8vo., original grey boards lettered in gilt to spine; blue endpapers; housed in the original unclipped dust jacket (£20.00); with a photograph of the author to the lower flap; pp. [viii], 3-345, [i]; a near-fine copy, lightly compressed to spine tips and with one small coffee splash to the upper edge; small scratch to outer edge of text block; near-fine jacket lightly rubbed at edges.
First edition, with full number line 1-10, boldly signed by the author to the title page.
A fantasy novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, following the lives of an elderly couple, Axl and Beatrice, who live in a fictional post-Arthurian England in which no-one is able to retain long-term memories.
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