A3

Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains Of The Day

A3 a. UK Edition

  1. First Edition

Faber & Faber. Published 22nd May 1989. Hardback. White endpapers, half-title, title, [ii], 243 pages numbered 3-245, [ii]. Pages 210mm x 131mm. Black cloth; down spine in white lettering: ‘KAZUO ISHIGURO  The Remains of the Day  ff(logo)’. ISBN 0-571-15310-0.

Dustjacket. 510mm x 221mm. Front: black with text in a fawn box and photo of a pocket watch. In black: ‘ff (logo) | KAZUO ISHIGURO | The Remains of the Day’. Price on front flap £10.99.

2. Proof

Faber & Faber. Paperback. Half-title, title, [ii], 243 pages numbered 3-245. Pages 209mm x 131mm. Red wrappers with repeated ff logo in close formation; down spine in black lettering: ‘The Remains of the Day  Kazuo Ishiguro’.

3. Proof Dustjacket

There is some variation in the base colour of fawn on the dustjackets for The Remains of the Day and usually a clear difference in shade between the back cover and flaps. There are several copies recorded of a test dustjacket with a uniform and paler flax colour for the spine, back and flaps. The text on the test version varies as follows: there is no price on the front flap, on the back cover the author photograph is different, there is no bar code and there’s no credit for the front cover photograph.

4. The Folio Society Edition

The Folio Society. Published 2007. Hardback. Brown endpapers, 1 blank, half-title, [i], title, [iii], 224 pages numbered 3-226, [ii]. Pages 222mm x 152mm. Illustrated cloth boards in shades of brown, gold and white. Down spine in gilt lettering: ‘The Remains of the Day  KAZUO ISHIGURO  FOLIO’. No dustjacket. Plain brown slipcase. ISBN none.

5. Everyman’s Library Edition

Everyman’s Library. Published 2012. Hardback. White endpapers with the Everyman’s logo in gold, [i], title, [i], [xii] introduction by Salman Rushdie, bibliography and chronology, [ii], 209 pages numbered 5-213, [ii]. Pages 204mm x 122mm. Red cloth boards and a gold fabric bookmark attached to the head of spine. Down spine in gilt lettering on black: ‘KAZUO ISHIGURO  THE REMAINS OF THE DAY’, and lower down in gilt ‘EVERYMAN’S | LIBRARY’. ISBN 978-1-84159-349-4.

Dustjacket. 488mm x 211mm. Front: a colour photograph of Kazuo Ishiguro. In white on a black rectangle ‘Kazuo Ishiguro’, below in white ‘THE REMAINS OF THE DAY’, and lower down in white ‘(Everyman’s logo) | EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY | INTRODUCTION BY SALMAN RUSHDIE’. Price on front flap £16.99.

6. The Nobel Prize Edition

Faber & Faber. Published 2017. Hardback. Patterned endpapers, [i], title, [ii], 256 pages numbered 3-258, 4 blanks. Pages 222mm x 152mm. Illustrated cloth boards in black, gold and white. Down spine in white lettering: ‘The Remains of the Day’, in gilt ‘KAZUO ISHIGURO’ and in white ‘ff (logo)’. No dustjacket. Wraparound yellow band with in white ‘From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017’. ISBN 978-0-571-34574-8.

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A3 b. USA Edition

  1. First Edition

Alfred A. Knopf. Published 4th October 1989. Hardback. White endpapers, [i], half-title, title, [ii], 243 pages numbered 3-245, [i]. Pages 212mm x 141mm. Blue-grey paper covered boards, quarter bound in blue cloth, red top edge; down spine in silver lettering: ‘The Remains of the Day  KAZUO ISHIGURO  (Borzoi logo) KNOPF’. ISBN 0-394-57343-9.

Dustjacket. 531mm x 217mm. Front: a faded photograph of a pocket watch on a blue-grey background. In blue: ‘THE REMAINS OF THE DAY’, below in black ‘a novel by’ and in red ‘KAZUO ISHIGURO’. Price on front flap $18.95.

2. Proof

Alfred A. Knopf. Paperback. [i], half-title, title, [ii], 243 pages numbered 3-245. Pages 212mm x 134mm. Pale grey wrappers with front cover text in black giving publication data including publication date of ‘October 1989’; down spine in black lettering: ‘ISHIGURO  THE REMAINS OF THE DAY  (Borzoi logo)’.

There is a variant with the number 4 handwritten on the front cover before the publication date. Stapled to the verso of the front cover are 2 publicity sheets with quotes about The Remains of the Day and a photocopy of an article about Ishiguro from Newsweek, 26th January 1987. Taped over the half title is a publicity blurb for the book and on verso is stapled an interview with Ishiguro from The Bookseller, 14th April 1989.

3. Broadside

Black Oak Books, Berkeley, CA, USA 1990. Buff card 279mm x 177mm. An excerpt from The Remains of the Day published to mark the occasion of a reading by Kazuo Ishiguro at the Black Oak Books bookstore.

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A3 c. Canadian Edition

  1. First Edition

Lester & Orpen Dennys. Published May 1989. Paperback. Half-title, [i], title, [ii], 243 pages numbered 3-245, [i]. Pages 215mm x 135mm. Front: A close-up photograph of a pocket watch, with at the top in blue-grey ‘THE REMAINS’, in white ‘of the‘, and in blue-grey ‘DAY’; at the bottom in purple ‘KAZUO ISHIGURO’. ISBN 0-88619-219-6. Price on back cover $13.95.

Note 1: The Canadian first edition was published in paperback only.

2. Proof

Lester & Orpen Dennys. Paperback. [i], half-title, title, [ii], 243 pages numbered 3-245, 1 blank. Pages 213mm x 132mm. White wrappers with front and back cover text in black.

A3 d. German Century Edition

  1. Jahrhundert Edition [in German]

Bertelsmann Club GmbH. Published 1998. Hardback. Dark grey endpapers, [i], title, [ii], 263 pages numbered 9-271, 4 blanks. Pages 483mm x 123mm. Dark blue boards; up spine in gilt lettering: ‘(logo)  KAZUO ISHIGURO  WAS VOM TAGE ÜBRIGBLIEB’.

Dustjacket. 531mm x 210mm. Dark grey with text in red and black. With a matching card slipcase and a 14-page booklet about Ishiguro.

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A3 e. Japan Edition

  1. First Edition

Chuokoron-Sha Inc. Published 1990. Hardback. White endpapers speckled with purple, title, [ii], 297 pages numbered 5-301, [i]. Pages 190mm x 126mm. Eggshell white textured boards; down spine in grey lettering (in Japanese) the title, author and publisher; across the centre of the spine in grey ‘The Remains of the Day’. ISBN 4-12-001947-0.

Dustjacket. 451mm x 197mm. Front: white with a monochrome photo of a field and trees; at the top in gold ‘The Remains | of the Day’ and in black (in Japanese) the author and title. Price on back cover ¥1500. The obi strip is a metallic wheat colour and has Japanese text in black.

Note 1: The text is in Japanese and therefore the ‘front cover’ is at the back and the page order is in reverse.