Cover Art; Spine ends & corners of book cover have extremely light bumping & rubbing. Black paper covered boards have a blue cloth spine with gilt lettering. Text pages are clean & bright. Endpapers are a solid white color. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. Top front corner of dust jacket has one tiny nick / rubbed spot. Bottom front flap of dust jacket has one very small edge tear with a bit of wear. Overall, a nice bright copy. "It is the story of a man named Ryder. He is a Pianist of international renown who, as the novel opens, has arrived in a European city he cannot identify to give a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. In the days before the concert, he is led in and out of the lives of seeming strangers, but his fleeting recollections of them and of his purpose among them are invariably overwhelmed by their inexplicable knowledge of and expectations of him." This book was short-listed for the Booker Prize.

Modern Fiction Kazuo Ishiguro Barbara DeWilde Chip Kidd Pianists Music Modern First editions Modern Fiction Firsts