Ishiguro, Kazuo (2012) ‘Never Let Me Go’, signed Folio Society and first illustrated edition

Kazuo Ishiguro (2012) ‘Never Let Me Go’, Folio Society edition (first printing) and first illustrated edition. Signed on the title page without further inscriptions. Signed to us in person at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Booker Prize in July 2018. We retain the event ticket as provenance.

Condition: a fine copy without any issues and the shrink wrap was only removed for the signing. The books comes with the original protective slipcase.

Production details of this beautiful Folio edition:

• Bound in cloth.
• Blocked with a design by Kate Miller.
• Set in Figural.
• 288 pages.
• Frontispiece and 8 colour illustrations.
• Book size: 9″ × 6¼”.
• This Folio edition contains a new introduction by Claire Messud, award-winning author of The Emperor’s Children. She describes Ishiguro’s novel as belonging to a ‘thin but intense literary vein that runs from King Lear to Beckett and beyond, works that lay bare the human condition in its stark fundamentals … Without fanfare or Dostoevskian histrionics, Never Let Me Go joins the ranks of these abiding works.’ This is artist Kate Miller’s first commission for The Folio Society. Her beautiful, multi-layered illustrations have been praised by Kazuo Ishiguro as ‘subtly gorgeous and full of poignancy’. Source: http://www.foliosociety.com/book/NEV/never-let-me-go

Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the most important and best regarded British novelists of the last three decades. He won the Booker Prize for ‘The Remains of the Day’ in 1989, and the Nobel Prize in 2017 His books are read in schools and for English degrees. A highly collectible author. ‘Never Let Me Go’ was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize. The story was adapted as a movie starring Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley in 2010.