The Remains of the Day

Written by Kazuo Ishiguro

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This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.

Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington.

But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.

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Collecting Klara and the Sun: The Complete Edition Guide

Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel after the Nobel Prize arrived in March 2021 with an unusually crowded field of collectable states: a signed Faber limitation of 200 numbered copies that sold out before publication, a Waterstones sprayed-edge exclusive, an independent bookshop edition with an alternative jacket, and a later Folio Society illustrated edition signed in an issue of 100. This guide sets out the edition points, corrects a persistent myth about the Waterstones exclusive, and compares current secondary market values across every configuration. With the Taika Waititi film adaptation due in October 2026, it also assesses which states are likely to hold value and which are noise.

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Goldsboro Books

Hardback · Faber and Faber · First edition · First printing

Limited Edition

ISBN 9780571153107

Out of stock

£550.00

UnsignedUK first editionFirst printingLimited edition

History

First seen· Out of stock · £550.0016 Apr 2026

Last confirmed 13 Oct 2026

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