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Kazuo Ishiguro – Nocturnes

a. UK Edition

  1. First Edition

Faber & Faber. Published 7th May 2009. Hardback. Hunter green endpapers, half-title, title, [iii], 219 pages numbered 3-221, 5 blanks. Pages 197mm x 124mm. Dark blue paper covered boards; down spine in silver lettering: ‘KAZUO ISHIGURO  (five diamond shapes)  NOCTURNES  ff(logo)’. ISBN 978-0-571-24498-0.

Dustjacket. 470mm x 204mm. Front: a photograph of strings of red, white and blue lightbulbs. In white: ‘Kazuo Ishiguro’, in yellow ‘Nocturnes’, and in white ‘Five Stories of Music and Nightfall’. Price on front flap £14.99.

2. Proof

Faber & Faber. Paperback. Half title, title, [iii], 219 pages numbered 3-221. Pages 198mm x 121mm. Front: a photograph of strings of red, white and blue lightbulbs. In white: ‘Kazuo Ishiguro’, in yellow ‘Nocturnes’, and in white ‘Five Stories of Music and Nightfall’.

3. Limited Edition Proof

Faber & Faber. Hardback. Half title, title, [iii], 219 pages numbered 3-221. Pages 196mm x 124mm. Blue paper covered boards with in silver: ‘Kazuo Ishiguro | (looped figures of 8 motif) | Nocturnes | Five Stories | of Music and | Nightfall | May 2009’, and in white ‘Five Stories of Music and Nightfall’. On the half title is printed ‘Limited Edition | Number nn of 100”. All recorded copies have been signed by Ishiguro on the title page.

4. Signed Slipcased Edition

Faber & Faber. Published 18th May 2009. Hardback. Hunter green endpapers, half-title, title, [iii], 219 pages numbered 3-221, 5 blanks. Pages 197mm x 124mm. Dark blue paper covered boards; down spine in silver lettering: ‘KAZUO ISHIGURO  (five diamond shapes)  NOCTURNES  ff(logo)’. ISBN 978-0-571-25088-2.  Signed by Ishiguro to the title page.

Dustjacket. 470mm x 204mm. Front: a photograph of strings of red, white and blue lightbulbs. In white: ‘Kazuo Ishiguro’, in yellow ‘Nocturnes’, and in white ‘Five Stories of Music and Nightfall’. No price on front flap.

Slipcase. 213mm x 138mm. Dark blue paper covered slipcase with a smaller version of the dustjacket lightbulbs photo in the centre with in silver above ‘Kazuo Ishiguro | Nocturnes’ and below ‘(ff logo) Signed slipcased edition’.

Note: the differences between the slipcased edition and the first edition are the slipcase, the ISBN, no price on the dustjacket and Ishiguro’s signature.

See photos below.

b. USA Edition

  1. First Edition

Alfred A. Knopf. Published 28th September 2009.Hardback. White endpapers, 1 blank, [i], half-title, title, [iii], 219 pages numbered 3-221, [ii], 1 blank. Pages 210mm x 140mm. Blue paper covered boards; down spine in silver lettering: ‘KAZUO ISHIGURO  NOCTUNES  KNOPF’. ISBN 978-0-307-27102-0.

Dustjacket. 534mm x 219mm. Front: a sepia photograph of church in Venice with blue text above: ‘NOCTURNES | FIVE | STORIES | OF | MUSIC | AND | NIGHTFALL”, and below ‘KAZUO ISHIGURO | AUTHOR OF THE REMAINS OF THE DAY’. Price on front flap $25.00.

Proof: No proof copies have been recorded.

See photos below.