Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro, with a dust jacket protected in a new archival wrap. First American Edition stated, 2000 Knopf. First printing with no subsequent printing.
The exterior of the book is in Near Fine condition, with clean, bright boards with a small stain on the front cover. Also, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, a tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and two bumped corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition, with no marks, inscriptions, or any other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is also in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear and the corresponding stain on the front cover. First state jacket with the $25.00 price on the front flap, and the 9/2000 date code on the rear flap. L
The maze of human memory–the ways in which we accommodate and alter it, deceive and deliver ourselves with it–is territory that Kazuo Ishiguro has made his own. In his previous novels, he has explored this inner world and its manifestations in the lives of his characters with rare inventiveness and subtlety, shrewd humor and insight. In When We Were Orphans, his first novel in five years, he returns to this terrain in a brilliantly realized story that illuminates the power of one’s past to determine the present.
