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Kazuo Ishiguro – The Unconsoled
a. UK Edition
- First Edition
Faber & Faber. Published 1st May 1995. Hardback. White endpapers, half-title, title, [ii], 533 pages numbered 3-535. Pages 233mm x 150mm. Black cloth; down spine in white lettering: ‘ff(logo) Kazuo Ishiguro The Unconsoled’. ISBN 0-571-17387-X.
Dustjacket. 540mm x 240mm. Front: black with a montage of a suit and tie looming over a group of people and a maze. In white: ‘ff (logo) | Kazuo Ishiguro | The Unconsoled | By the author of The Remains of the Day’. Price on front flap £15.99.
2a. Proof – First State
Faber & Faber. Paperback. [i], half-title, title, [i], 533 pages numbered 3-535, 1 blank. Pages 215mm x 132mm. Front: black with a graphic of a suit and tie looming over a group of people and a maze. In white: ‘ff (logo) | Kazuo Ishiguro | The Unconsoled | By the Booker Prize-winning | author of The Remains of the Day | UNCORRECTED PROOF’. The back cover has small photograph of a book display bin for bookshops, the blurb, a detailed list of the ways the book will be promoted, the publication date ‘8 May 1995’ and a price of £15.99.
2b. Proof – Second State
Faber & Faber. Paperback. [i], half-title, title, [i], 533 pages numbered 3-535, 1 blank. Pages 215mm x 132mm. Front: black with a montage of a suit and tie looming over a group of people and a maze. In white: ‘ff (logo) | Kazuo Ishiguro | The Unconsoled | By the Booker Prize-winning | author of The Remains of the Day | UNCORRECTED PROOF’. The back cover only has the blurb and a black pen has been used to amend the publication date to ‘May 1995’ and blank out the price. On the first page (before the half-title) a blue rubber stamp states ‘Publication/Embargo Date: 1 May 1995’.
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b. USA Edition
- First Edition
Alfred A. Knopf. Published 1st October 1995.Hardback. White endpapers, [i], half-title, title, [ii], 533 pages numbered 3-535. Pages 213mm x 145mm. Black paper covered boards, quarter bound in blue cloth; on upper board in gilt, ‘Kazuo Ishiguro’; down spine in gilt lettering: ‘Kazuo Ishiguro The UNCONSOLED ALFRED A. KNOPF’. ISBN 0-679-40425-2.
Dustjacket. 560mm x 219mm. Front: the painting ‘World Body’ by John Bowman and in white: ‘THE UNCONSOLED’, below in red ‘KAZUO ISHIGURO’ and in white ‘author of THE REMAINS OF THE DAY’. Price on front flap $25.00.
2a. Proof – First State
Alfred A. Knopf. Paperback. [i], half-title, title, [ii], 533 pages numbered 3-535. Pages 212mm x 142mm. Pale grey wrappers with on front cover text concerning publication data; down spine in black lettering: ‘KAZUO ISHIGURO THE UNCONSOLED (Borzoi logo)’. Stapled to the verso of the front cover are 2 photocopies: a list of quotes from UK reviews and a review from Publishers Weekly.
2b. Proof – Second State
Alfred A. Knopf. Paperback. [i], half-title, title, [ii], 533 pages numbered 3-535. Pages 212mm x 136mm. Front cover has the painting ‘World Body’ by John Bowman and in white: ‘THE UNCONSOLED’, below in red ‘KAZUO ISHIGURO’ below that in white ‘author of THE REMAINS OF THE DAY’ with in small white text in a white outline at the lower right ‘UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF’.
3. Broadside – 1
Lannan Foundation, USA 19th October 1995. Buff card 280mm x 380mm folded in half to create a booklet with a 2 page excerpt from The Unconsoled inside. The broadside also acts as a programme for the event which was one of a ‘Reading & Conversations’ series sponsored by the Lannan Foundation at the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA, USA.
4. Broadside – 2
92nd St Y, New York, USA 1995. A broadside excerpt from The Unconsoled was published for a reading by Kazuo Ishiguro at this venue. No further details available.
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